House of Faith Ministries (HoFM) is an online ministry providing Holy Spirit revelation of the Word of God. Mission Statement To live the reality of the Gospel of Jesus Christ in such a manner that: Death to the things of this world in our lives will be obvious to all, while we proclaim the life of Jesus Christ to every corner of the world; Beginning with the very corners of our world. Purpose To be found worthy of His calling at His soon return. Motto For He that promised is faithful. Luke 18:8 Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? May the Lord bless you and keep you; may the Lord make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you; may the Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace. Greetings in the name of Jesus our redeemer. My name is Marcos Marrero, and this is what I believe: I believe that we ought to always thank God for sending Jesus, his only begotten Son to die for our sins. I believe that we ought to praise God always, for He did not leave his only begotten Son hanging on the cross or inside the grave. We ought to worship Him! The creator of the heavens and the earth, who raised Jesus from the dead, and has given Him a name that is above every name. Philippians 2:9-11 "Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father." It is my intention for this web page to make this proclamation: The Word of God is the only TRUTH! Jesus, the messiah of Israel is the revelation of God's TRUTH! The Holy Spirit sanctifies every human who believes the TRUTH, as presented in the gospel of Jesus Christ. II Thessalonians 2:13-14 "But we ought always to thank God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because from the beginning God chose you to be saved through the sanctifying work of the Spirit and through belief in the truth. He called you to this through our gospel, that you might share in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ." I boldly proclaim that the same Jesus that was taken up to heaven and is now seated at the right hand of God the Father, creator of heaven and earth. Will soon return to this earth to set up His kingdom. I boldly proclaim that this same Jesus will judge both the living and the dead. Those who believe God's TRUTH as presented in the gospel of Jesus Christ will be rewarded with the crown of life, and will forever be with the Lord. But those who reject the TRUTH of the gospel of Jesus Christ will be dammed for eternity. II Thessalonians 2:12 "That they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness." I also believe that God will hold every believer accountable who does not strive to have the work of faith with power in their lives. II Thessalonians 1:11 "Therefore we also pray always for you that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of His goodness and the work of faith with power." It is the demonstration of God's power through faith in the TRUTH of the Word of God, that will convict sinners of their error and cause them to cry out for our God's salvation. Luke 5:8 "When Simon Peter saw it, (the demonstration of God's miracle working power) he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying 'depart from me for I am a sinful man, O Lord!'" It is my desire to present to you in this web page the gospel of Jesus Christ in its true form. Free from the contamination of human fallacies. Knowing, even as I am writing this, that Jesus will hold me accountable for everything that I will be teaching here. James 3:1 "Not many of you should presume to be teachers, my brothers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly." Lord Jesus! I dedicate this web page to you. I pray for your anointing and guidance. Let those who read its contents be led by your precious Holy Spirit to receive the promises of your abundant life. Amen. House of Faith Ministries (HoFM)

House of Faith Ministries (HoFM) believes you should always spend time with God. Here's a quick way to start your day off with God. A QUICK MOMENT WITH GOD Personal Message from Lisa Kane: When I first became a believer, I struggled with putting God first in my life. I prayed about it, and slowly began by reading just one verse a day and saying a short prayer. That simple step completely transformed my walk with the Lord. Over time, it became the most important part of my day. Now, every morning when I wake up and every night before bed, I spend time in God’s Word and in prayer. The Bible tells us in Matthew 6:33 (KJV): “But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” Make the decision today to commit your heart fully to the Lord. It will be the most life-changing—and the most important—choice you’ll ever make. Posted date: 11/21/2025

House of Faith Ministries (HoFM) updates this website often. Here's the latest teaching. LATEST TEACHING Top of Page THE RIB Presented by Minister Lisa Kane Published on 11.19.25 Objective: To reveal God’s divine design for the woman as “the helper,” formed from the rib, reflecting God’s own role as Helper. This lesson aims to show how women are uniquely created to protect, strengthen, and pray over their husbands—just as God protects, strengthens, and intercedes for His children. Through Scripture, we explore how the role of “helper” mirrors God’s nature, how the rib symbolizes covering and safeguarding, and how prayer becomes the woman’s spiritual expression of this calling. Whether married or single, every believer can commit to God as their ultimate Helper and walk in the order, strength, and blessing He designed. Synopsis: Beloved, God did not pull the woman from Adam’s head or his feet—He drew her from the rib, the place of protection, covering, and strength. From the beginning, God revealed His heart: to be a Helper, and to place His helping nature inside the woman. Scripture shows that God Himself is called “Helper” again and again—defending the fatherless, strengthening the weak, and answering the helpless. When God created woman as “a helper comparable to him,” He was sharing His own attribute with her. This lesson walks through Genesis, Psalms, Hosea, the Gospels, and the New Testament to uncover the beauty and responsibility of that role. The enemy seeks the “helpless,” but women were not made helpless—we were made helpers, protectors, intercessors, spiritual rib-cages around our husbands. Through prayer, we guard our households, shield our husbands from attack, and stand in the gap like Jesus did when He prayed for Peter that his faith would not fail. We look at the rib as a symbol of spiritual covering, the unity of becoming one flesh, and the order God established in marriage—wives aligning under God to pray for their husbands, and husbands loving like Christ who gave Himself for the church. This divine order brings transformation to both husband and wife. Finally, the lesson embraces the single believer: God Himself becomes your Helper. The same God who defends the fatherless, strengthens the weak, and stands against every weapon formed is the One who covers you. As you commit yourself to Him, He shapes you into a vessel of love, prayer, and spiritual strength. In all things, we learn that to be “the rib” is not a position of weakness—but a position of divine power, prayer, and purpose, patterned after the very heart of God Himself. Lesson in written form: Did you know that God is our helper? Did you know that women made of the rib are made to be helpers in our relationship with our husbands? Genesis 1:26-27 NKJV 26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over [g ]all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Genesis 2:20-22 NKJV 20 So Adam gave names to all cattle, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper comparable to him. 21 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. 22 Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man He [h ]made into a woman, and He brought her to the man. The term ‘help’ is found 28 times alone in the book of Psalms NKJV. What is the role of the ‘helper’? Psalm 10:8 NKJV 8 He sits in the lurking places of the villages; In the secret places he murders the innocent; His eyes are secretly fixed on the helpless. Our enemy is looking for the ‘helpless’ but us women were made to be helpers of our man. Psalm 10:14 NKJV 14 But You have seen, for You observe trouble and grief, To repay it by Your hand. The helpless commits[a ] himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless. Here we see the Psalmist saying that God is the ‘helper’ to the fatherless. God takes the role of ‘helper’ when needed, and anyone who feels ‘helpless’ can commit his or her self to God. With this, we can see the role of ‘helper’ comes from God and comes from women. Psalm 12:1 NKJV Help,[b ] Lord, for the godly man ceases! For the faithful disappear from among the sons of men. Here we see David calling out on God’s ‘help’ because the godly man ceases. God is our helper and will answer our cry for help. Psalm 37:40 NKJV 40 And the Lord shall help them and deliver them; He shall deliver them from the wicked, And save them, Because they trust in Him. So, woman was made from the rib of the man as a ‘helper’ to her man. And as a man and woman, both are made in the image of Him – male and female. Remember Genesis 1:27 we read earlier: 27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. As a man and woman, we complete the image of God but as you also saw, men without a mate, the fatherless, and women without a mate can call on God’s help and God will be our help, completing the image that He created us to be. Hosea 13:7-9 NKJV 7 “So I will be to them like a lion; Like a leopard by the road I will lurk; 8 I will meet them like a bear deprived of her cubs; I will tear open their rib cage, And there I will devour them like a lion. The [e ]wild beast shall tear them. 9 “O Israel, [f ]you are destroyed, But [g ]your help is from Me. There are two important points to grab from Hosea 13:7-9: First, it takes a wild beast that is strong to tear open the rib cage and second, God says the help we have is from Him. That means God has to approve the wild beast to destroy / tear us apart…as long as we’re calling on the Lord, we have God’s help. As we read earlier in Psalms: Psalm 10:14 NKJV 14 But You have seen, for You observe trouble and grief, To repay it by Your hand. The helpless commits[a ] himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless. The helpless commits his or herself to God and God helps. If only Israel had listened… But we can. We can commit ourselves to the Lord and have His help. Now, here is the best part of this teaching, in my opinion. Women were made from the rib. The rib cage protects vital organs inside of us. When we have our mate, we are extension of that rib cage. We can pray for our mate and keep him protected because we represent the help of the Lord. Jesus is our help and He’s praying for us. Luke 22:31-32 NKJV 31 [d ]And the Lord said, “Simon, Simon! Indeed, Satan has asked for you, that he may sift you as wheat. 32 But I have prayed for you, that your faith should not fail; and when you have returned to Me, strengthen your brethren.” Women, as we are the helper, we pray like Jesus being the ‘helper’ that we’re made to be. We pray. Mark 10:7-9 NKJV 7 ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, 8 and the two shall become one flesh’; so then they are no longer two, but one flesh. 9 Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.” 1 Peter 2:24 NKJV 24 who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose [a ]stripes you were healed. Isaiah 54:17 NKJV 17 No weapon formed against you shall prosper, And every tongue which rises against you in judgment You shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, And their righteousness is from Me,” Says the Lord. The above scriptures is just a few examples of what we can pray over our man. We pray for our man that ‘no weapon formed against him shall prosper’. We pray ‘that by His stripes we are and were healed’. We pray that no man will separate us because what God brought together, no one will separate’. This is committing and applying God to our relationship as man and woman. This is why Paul says in Ephesians: Ephesians 5:22-28 NKJV 22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. 24 Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, 26 that He might [g ]sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, 27 that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish. 28 So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself. Women, by submitting to God, you are submitting to your husband by praying over him and giving him to God. That prayer causes you to align with God and God moves through your man, changing him to ‘love’ you as Christ loves the church. He also works change in you helping you to be a better woman of God. God is a God of order. He placed this order for us to obey. Obedience is an act of commitment, and this is how we women pray for our man as the ‘helper’ God called us to be. Start praying for your man and your relationship, and watch God make changes in both of you. If you are single, know this: God is your helper. He’s praying for you. Commit yourself to Him and pray over yourself. With you and God praying over yourself, He will change you into a better person demonstrating love and all the fruit of the spirit. More teachings found here: Deliverance Ministry Teachings Library End Times Prophecy Library Biblical Written Teachings Library Biblical Video Teachings Library

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The Rib To reveal God’s divine design for the woman as “the helper,” formed from the rib, reflecting God’s own role as Helper. This lesson aims to show how women are uniquely created to protect, strengthen, and pray over their husbands—just as God protects, strengthens, and intercedes for His children. Through Scripture, we explore how the role of “helper” mirrors God’s nature, how the rib symbolizes covering and safeguarding, and how prayer becomes the woman’s spiritual expression of this calling. Whether married or single, every believer can commit to God as their ultimate Helper and walk in the order, strength, and blessing He designed. The Rib Minister Lisa Kane November 19, 2025 Objective: To reveal God’s divine design for the woman as “the helper,” formed from the rib, reflecting God’s own role as Helper. This lesson aims to show how women are uniquely created to protect, strengthen, and pray over their husbands—just as God protects, strengthens, and intercedes for His children. Through Scripture, we explore how the role of “helper” mirrors God’s nature, how the rib symbolizes covering and safeguarding, and how prayer becomes the woman’s spiritual expression of this calling. Whether married or single, every believer can commit to God as their ultimate Helper and walk in the order, strength, and blessing He designed. Synopsis: Beloved, God did not pull the woman from Adam’s head or his feet—He drew her from the rib, the place of protection, covering, and strength. From the beginning, God revealed His heart: to be a Helper, and to place His helping nature inside the woman. Scripture shows that God Himself is called “Helper” again and again—defending the fatherless, strengthening the weak, and answering the helpless. When God created woman as “a helper comparable to him,” He was sharing His own attribute with her. This lesson walks through Genesis, Psalms, Hosea, the Gospels, and the New Testament to uncover the beauty and responsibility of that role. The enemy seeks the “helpless,” but women were not made helpless—we were made helpers, protectors, intercessors, spiritual rib-cages around our husbands. Through prayer, we guard our households, shield our husbands from attack, and stand in the gap like Jesus did when He prayed for Peter that his faith would not fail. We look at the rib as a symbol of spiritual covering, the unity of becoming one flesh, and the order God established in marriage—wives aligning under God to pray for their husbands, and husbands loving like Christ who gave Himself for the church. This divine order brings transformation to both husband and wife. Finally, the lesson embraces the single believer: God Himself becomes your Helper. The same God who defends the fatherless, strengthens the weak, and stands against every weapon formed is the One who covers you. As you commit yourself to Him, He shapes you into a vessel of love, prayer, and spiritual strength. In all things, we learn that to be “the rib” is not a position of weakness—but a position of divine power, prayer, and purpose, patterned after the very heart of God Himself. Inspired Teaching - Written and/or Transcribed from Video Above: Did you know that God is our helper? Did you know that women made of the rib are made to be helpers in our relationship with our husbands? Genesis 1:26-27 NKJV 26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over [g]all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Genesis 2:20-22 NKJV 20 So Adam gave names to all cattle, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper comparable to him. 21 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. 22 Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man He [h]made into a woman, and He brought her to the man. The term ‘help’ is found 28 times alone in the book of Psalms NKJV. What is the role of the ‘helper’? Psalm 10:8 NKJV 8 He sits in the lurking places of the villages; In the secret places he murders the innocent; His eyes are secretly fixed on the helpless. Our enemy is looking for the ‘helpless’ but us women were made to be helpers of our man. Psalm 10:14 NKJV 14 But You have seen, for You observe trouble and grief, To repay it by Your hand. The helpless commits[a] himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless. Here we see the Psalmist saying that God is the ‘helper’ to the fatherless. God takes the role of ‘helper’ when needed, and anyone who feels ‘helpless’ can commit his or her self to God. With this, we can see the role of ‘helper’ comes from God and comes from women. Psalm 12:1 NKJV Help,[b] Lord, for the godly man ceases! For the faithful disappear from among the sons of men. Here we see David calling out on God’s ‘help’ because the godly man ceases. God is our helper and will answer our cry for help. Psalm 37:40 NKJV 40 And the Lord shall help them and deliver them; He shall deliver them from the wicked, And save them, Because they trust in Him. So, woman was made from the rib of the man as a ‘helper’ to her man. And as a man and woman, both are made in the image of Him – male and female. Remember Genesis 1:27 we read earlier: 27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. As a man and woman, we complete the image of God but as you also saw, men without a mate, the fatherless, and women without a mate can call on God’s help and God will be our help, completing the image that He created us to be. Hosea 13:7-9 NKJV 7 “So I will be to them like a lion; Like a leopard by the road I will lurk; 8 I will meet them like a bear deprived of her cubs; I will tear open their rib cage, And there I will devour them like a lion. The [e]wild beast shall tear them. 9 “O Israel, [f]you are destroyed, But [g]your help is from Me. There are two important points to grab from Hosea 13:7-9: First, it takes a wild beast that is strong to tear open the rib cage and second, God says the help we have is from Him. That means God has to approve the wild beast to destroy / tear us apart…as long as we’re calling on the Lord, we have God’s help. As we read earlier in Psalms: Psalm 10:14 NKJV 14 But You have seen, for You observe trouble and grief, To repay it by Your hand. The helpless commits[a] himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless. The helpless commits his or herself to God and God helps. If only Israel had listened… But we can. We can commit ourselves to the Lord and have His help. Now, here is the best part of this teaching, in my opinion. Women were made from the rib. The rib cage protects vital organs inside of us. When we have our mate, we are extension of that rib cage. We can pray for our mate and keep him protected because we represent the help of the Lord. Jesus is our help and He’s praying for us. Luke 22:31-32 NKJV 31 [d]And the Lord said, “Simon, Simon! Indeed, Satan has asked for you, that he may sift you as wheat. 32 But I have prayed for you, that your faith should not fail; and when you have returned to Me, strengthen your brethren.” Women, as we are the helper, we pray like Jesus being the ‘helper’ that we’re made to be. We pray. Mark 10:7-9 NKJV 7 ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, 8 and the two shall become one flesh’; so then they are no longer two, but one flesh. 9 Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.” 1 Peter 2:24 NKJV 24 who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose [a]stripes you were healed. Isaiah 54:17 NKJV 17 No weapon formed against you shall prosper, And every tongue which rises against you in judgment You shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, And their righteousness is from Me,” Says the Lord. The above scriptures is just a few examples of what we can pray over our man. We pray for our man that ‘no weapon formed against him shall prosper’. We pray ‘that by His stripes we are and were healed’. We pray that no man will separate us because what God brought together, no one will separate’. This is committing and applying God to our relationship as man and woman. This is why Paul says in Ephesians: Ephesians 5:22-28 NKJV 22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. 24 Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, 26 that He might [g]sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, 27 that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish. 28 So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself. Women, by submitting to God, you are submitting to your husband by praying over him and giving him to God. That prayer causes you to align with God and God moves through your man, changing him to ‘love’ you as Christ loves the church. He also works change in you helping you to be a better woman of God. God is a God of order. He placed this order for us to obey. Obedience is an act of commitment, and this is how we women pray for our man as the ‘helper’ God called us to be. Start praying for your man and your relationship, and watch God make changes in both of you. If you are single, know this: God is your helper. He’s praying for you. Commit yourself to Him and pray over yourself. With you and God praying over yourself, He will change you into a better person demonstrating love and all the fruit of the spirit. Previous Next

House of Faith Ministries (HoFM) highlights past messages reminding you that those messages still apply to today. BLAST FROM THE PAST UNDERSTANDING THE BOOK OF REVELATION PART 6 Audio by Pastor Marcos Marrero June 7, 2009 Objective: Equip listeners to see how the entire Bible converges in Revelation, strengthening faith amid cultural pushback; explain God’s redemptive timeline (from the dispensations through Daniel’s 70 weeks to the Tribulation); and urge believers to trust God’s daily mercy, live with the mind of Christ, and proclaim the gospel while there is time. Synopsis: The message opens in praise and prayer, anchoring hope in Lamentations 3:22–23—God’s mercies are new every morning. We thank God for adoption, sealing by the Spirit, and the commission to take the gospel to all nations. The speaker frames Revelation as the capstone where the preceding 65 books find fulfillment, arguing its coherence across 1,500 years of inspiration and encouraging confidence in Scripture despite modern skepticism. A sweeping overview of dispensations follows: Innocence (Adam and Eve) → Conscience (post-Fall self-awareness and the battle between God’s word and the serpent’s lies) → widespread corruption leading to the Flood at year 1,656 from Adam. Human Government begins at ~1,657 (Noahic covenant), continues to today, and will be judged when the “kingdoms of this world” become Christ’s. Promise (Abraham ~year 2000) establishes an eternal, twofold covenant (physical and spiritual seed). Law (Moses ~year 2500) given at Sinai; still awaiting judgment. Grace/Church Age (Christ at ~year 4000; Pentecost) fulfills Passover, Unleavened Bread, Firstfruits, and inaugurates global gospel mission. The sermon contrasts the fallen human mind—at enmity with God—with the mind of Christ given to believers, illustrated by a dream showing supernatural peace in the face of death. Babel and Nimrod exemplify rebellion; today’s global systems (language/technology) foreshadow end-time centralization. Daniel 9’s “70 weeks” is unpacked: 490 years are decreed for Israel and Jerusalem. After 483 years “Messiah is cut off,” creating a pause in which grace goes to the nations. The final 7 years resume when Antichrist confirms a covenant: First half (1,260 days): Two Witnesses minister with miraculous authority; trumpet judgments include a five-month demonic torment and a massive mortality event; this period culminates in their martyrdom and the abomination of desolation. A brief midpoint pause is noted (their bodies lie unburied ~3.5 days), aligning time markers. Second half (1,290 days + 45 days): Great Tribulation against Israel escalates; days are “shortened for the elect.” Post-Tribulation, a 45-day window completes judgments of the nations. Satan is bound for the Millennium, ending open transgression and inaugurating righteousness. The message ties prophetic timing to Sabbaths and Jubilees (Israel’s failure to give the land rest; the Church at the 120th Jubilee), to the fall festivals (trumpets/Rosh Hashanah as the day of gathering), and to the covenant with David (explaining a period of “desolation” with no earthly representative after the Two Witnesses, during which an angel proclaims the everlasting gospel from the sky; Rev 14). Revelation 10’s seven thunders are sealed, underscoring that God withholds some details so people won’t postpone repentance. Throughout, believers are urged to reject the accuser’s voice and believe God’s verdict of righteousness in Christ, to rest in His mercy each morning, and to be doers of the Word. The sermon closes with prayer, inviting hearers to belong to Jesus now—sealed for the day of redemption and spared from the coming wrath. Inspired Teaching - Written and/or Transcribed from Video Above: Praise God. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. How many are glad you know Jesus? Amen. You know, one thing about Jesus, he's so full of mercy. Thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah. It says uh I think in Lamentation 3:23 or 22 that his mercies are new every morning. [Music] Sometimes I go to sleep and say, "Oh man, I'm glad this day is over. Then I wake up in the morning and praise God, it's a new beginning." I tell you, so glad to have a a God that has put the past behind his back as far as the east is from the west and we can come to him every morning, brand new day. I got a brand new opportunity to start every morning when I wake up. Every single one of us does. No matter how bad it got yesterday or how bad it got today, we're as close to heaven as our knees are to the floor. Hallelujah. Our knees hit the floor and immediately he's there. Father in heaven, in Jesus name, we thank you for this opportunity to come together as a family tonight and to worship you, Father God. For you are King of Kings and Lord of Lords. You have given Jesus a name that is above every name. That at the name of Jesus, every knee shall bow. Of things in heaven above, on the earth beneath or in the waters below. We thank you that we have the spirit of uh adoption, that we have been sealed with the spirit of promise, Father God, and that we're waiting for the redemption of our bodies to take place. But meanwhile, we have been commissioned to proclaim the gospel to every creature. Wherever the there's breath, wherever there's air, let us proclaim that precious gospel, Father God, from all the ways to Thailand, all the way to South America, all the way to the north and to the south and to the east and to the west. Let this gospel of the kingdom be proclaimed, Father God. and let the anointing of the Holy Spirit back it up, Father God, so that people will know that Jesus is King of Kings and Lord of Lords, that he loves them and that they will repent and come to him. Bless uh tonight, Fred and Tony Harour and Vision for Women Ministries and the family that worships and fellowships here, Father God. And as we get together now to partake of your bread, the word of life, we ask, Father God, like Fred said, that you would bind any hindrances, any spirit that will somehow keep us from hearing. We pray that you bind it. And we ask by the spirit of grace that you grant us ears to hear that you open our hearts to understand and that you anoint now the words by the god that the spirit that the holy spirit will bring forth that we may be able to learn from them and be fed and nourished and transformed that we may be doers of the word and not just hearers only in Jesus name we love you lord. Amen. Praise God. But as you notice, I got you a couple of uh pages that are note and always when I start, I start try to give a rundown to keep things into context because you have to understand that the book of Revelation is where everything is completed. So here you have 65 books of the Bible. Okay? and everything that's been written on those 65 books of the Bible has to find a fulfillment in that 22 chapters that we have in in the book of revelation. So uh my faith when I began to understand the book of revelation was just so tremendously uplifted because I know that the Bible was written in the span of 1500 years from the first time that Moses wrote uh uh and Job was written like 1500 years before Christ to the gospels and that big span of time and so many different writers and to have all of uh come together so precisely in in the book that proclaims to be the end of God. My faith just shut up because you know we face our our our um what we believe is being challenged every day. You listen to music, your faith is being challenged. You watch TV, your faith is being challenged. You know, uh you speak in tongues, they think you're crazy. You know, you believe the word of God. We believe that actually the earth was created 6,000 years ago. A man, you're stupid. You're radical. You're all these things. So, we are being challenged. And you know, all I simply do is when I see some uh dumb dumb uh talking head on TV saying, "How could you know this be like that?" I said, "Well, you know what? I'm I'm old. I'm I was born in 47. I challenge any of those guys to take their books that they had in school in the 1950s and get the theories that they were teaching over there and look at the books that they have now and they totally change. Everything they said back then was proven wrong. They have some new theories now. And I can take my Bible and tell them, guess what? It hasn't changed. It hasn't changed. And the more and the more that they study and dig into it, the more they're finding out. You know, God said that when he made man, he took dirt out of the ground. Lo and behold, they come to find out that we're dirt. All of the chemicals that form our body are found in the dirt. You know, you just mix it with 80% 90% water and guess what? You have a body. So, this is what's so exciting about the book of Revelation. So I I try I'm trying to get you to to so that at least you can see it coming together if for anything more than to establish your faith. Because if I can believe that everything that Moses wrote is coming, you know, 2500 years ago is coming to pass right now. I know that Moses saw ahead of time what was coming, was able to write about it. Then I can trust what he says. You know, they make a big thing about this Nostradamus guy, some guy that lived 500 years ago because he makes certain prophecies and riddles and stuff like that. John in Revelation says that a mark of the beast that every single person in the world will have to receive a mark and that without that mark you can buy or sell. This would never ever make sense until the computer age came into being. And yet you never hear them talking about that. Why? Because if if that is right, then Jesus coming soon is right as well. They don't want to hear that part. So they will tell you right talking about Nostradamus, some uh uh uh uh I don't know what he was into, but it had to do a lot with divination. Let's put it this way. Some guy that pe into the darkness and saw a few things. I'd rather get the guy that went up to heaven and saw the one that was sitting in heaven and saw the lamb of God and got it directly from the God and said, "Write this." And told him, "Don't write this." So that's why I'm trying to to kind of give you a sense of what is going. Now the two pages are like a review because last week we got into the first half of what is called the tribulation period or the wrath of God. And I want to show you how that comes about because a lot of times we that teach in in in things of revelation take it for granted that everybody else knows. So when we say the 70th week of Daniel or the seven last years, a lot of people that are new to Christianity or have never studied uh prophecy may not know it. So in your dispensational charge, innocence, and I know I put paradise on there, I corrected on mine, but innocence was where the first dispensation. Adam and Eve were innocent and they were in paradise. And that was the beginning of time. There was no evolution. Men didn't come from a soupy thing or whatever. God just simply made an earth and then he took the dirt of the earth. He blew his breath into it. The spirit of God enter into a a a physical thing and the body became a human soul. Conscience is when Adam became self-aware. It's very important that we understand this because when Adam became self-aware, their faith was challenged. Their faith was challenged because a third party, in this case the snake or the serpent or the devil comes in and say, "Don't you guys know that you're naked? You know, here you think you're looking real cool and then somebody comes in all of a sudden tells you, you know, hey, you know, your hair or you're messed up or whatever, then all of a sudden you man, all your confidence just crumble." So they were told that they were naked. And of course, what God intended was that men would say, "Yeah, I am naked." But God says I am good. And as long as God says I'm good, I'm good. I don't care what you say. God says the standard, not the devil. And believe it or not, that's the circumstance we're in now. God says we're the righteousness of God of Christ Jesus. And yet I can guarantee that every single day the devil talks to each every one of us and say you're nothing but a lousy loser or this or that or the other. And we have to make a choice. And that choice is do I believe God or do I believe the devil? Thank God for a man like Joshua who said as for me in my house we will serve the Lord. We want to believe what the word of God says. And because of that I can stand up every morning. I don't care how messed up I messed up. I can get up every morning and said God says I'm good and as long as I hear you say otherwise Jesus I'm going to believe you and not going to believe the rest of it. So he became self-aware. And so because of that, now this period of time, innocent, nobody knows how long innocent lasted. When Adam and Eve were created and were in the garden and name all of the animals and everything, there's no time reference on that because this is a time that they spent with God. So time really began when uh men became self-aware. As men became self-aware, their conscience, the Bible says by the time we get to Noah in in Revelation, I mean in Genesis chapter 6, that men's conscience were so polluted that men's thoughts were constantly evil all the time. In other words, the consciences of men were seared up so bad that h God had to destroy everything that had the breath of life in it. this happened. And and this is important that you see this this calendar because I'm not counting by our years that we count here. I want you to see it from God's calendar from the beginning of time from from the time that Adam was created. And you can add it up. I added it up and a bunch of people added it up. We all come up with the same thing. 1,656 years. 1,656 years after Adam was created, God destroyed the world. He brought a worldwide flood that covered the entire earth and everything that had the breath of life was destroyed except for Adam, his wife, I mean Noah, his wife, his three sons, and their wives. Eight people were on the ark. This happened on the year 1,656 from the time that Adam was created. Now, we know that it'll only rain for a day, for 40 days and 49. They were actually on the ark about a year. So the from the time that they were drifting until they landed and all of that, they were in the ark a year. So they came out of the ark in the year 1,657. At that time, God had to reestablish the covenant. Remember, God is the God of covenant. Every dispensation that God makes has laws. For Adam and Eve in conscience, their law was you can eat of anything you want to. You can do whatever you want to. You can do cartwheels. live, serve, whatever you want to do, you do it. Just stay away from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. That was the only law that applied to them and it only applied to those two people. Uh over here in the in in in conscience, what applied was uh the word of God versus the word of Satan because that's the heritage that Adam and Eve gave to their children. They partake of the tree of the knowledge of the good and evil. So they um passed to us this conscience that we're battling all the time, good and evil, having to go with good and evil. We know that Enoch, who was the seventh from Adam, was a preacher of righteousness. We know that Noah also was a preacher of righteousness. So they had the word of God preached in those days but it got so bad that the people's consciences were seared and so God judge conscience. He says men's conscience from now on cannot be trusted. This is why the Bible says that your mind is at war with God. For us believer Paul makes this point in Romans chapter uh through many of the chapters chapter 7 chapter 8 he says our mind is enmity with God. It's at war with God. So you say, "How can we be saved?" The mind of Christ. When you get born again, the spirit of God comes into you. And now you have the mind of Christ. You're able to reason by virtue of the word of God. I can say, "I am what God says." And I can tell Satan, "Shut up." When he tells me I'm not. They may still be a battle, but I have peace. And I have peace with God. As a matter of fact, I had a dream last night. It was so weird. I'm not going to tell you the the four dreams that, but in one, I was in a plane. And it was weird. There was like one of those old planes where you're sitting with your back to the uh the side and there were people sitting on the front and uh there was a group of of men in the plane I think and I don't know we're going to a mission or whatever but it was had to do with church and as I'm going the plane is banking to land and we're just having a good time and then all of a sudden something happened the plane something went wrong with the plane and it flipped and as it flipped started going head first into the ground. I mean, this is a such a vivid dream. I mean, it's just so incredible. And as I'm going, I know this is it. And I just raise up my hands and began to worship the Lord and thank him. And I'm saying, man, I'm going to see you in just like I I know the plane was just about to crash, but I was just getting excited. I'm going to see Jesus. Then all of a sudden, he was able to level the plane and they landed. I said, "Man, I can't believe that." And I said to myself, uh, how could I even dream that being so sure that I was going to die? But even in my dream, I was so sure I was about to see Jesus. Why? Because that's the mind of Christ. See, the old mind, the doubting mind, that mind has been superimposed by the word of God and by me trusting and believing what the word of God said. So it has become part of me. Hallelujah. That even and and I believe that if that were to happen, that's exactly how we react. Why? because that's that's what is in my spirit. So then conscience was judged. Innocence was judged. Men can never go back to innocent. Conscience was judged at the end of 1,656 years. And then the human government started on the year 1,657. Noah came out. He took two of every paris except for the clean animals. The clean animals that could be offered a sacrifice. He took seven. So what does Noah does? He brings a clean animal is offer he offers a sacrifice to God. God smells the sweet offering of the sacrifice and he enter into a covenant with Noah. So now we have what is called the dispensation of human government. Human government started in the year 1,657 from the time that Adam was created and has never ended yet. This is why we have government because the the government of man is still here. If you remember, God said to Noah, have your children spread all over the earth and cover the whole earth. A guy rises up whose name is Nimrod, who was the son of Kush. Kush. Kush means confusion. He's pretty confused guy. He raises up his own. He goes into rebellion and they say, "We don't want to be scattered and nobody will know who we are. We want to make a name for ourselves. So he builds up a tower. This tower has the physical and spiritual meaning. The spiritual meaning is they're opening the the gates to self which is what the tree of knowledge of good and evil is. Self made self manmade knowledge it to worship that and he allows a whole bunch of demons in. Now God did not judge them. Horses with chariots of fire didn't come from heaven and judge these people that rebelled. No, God confused their language and forced them to scatter because you go to a group and they don't understand, you don't understand them. You get frustrated. So, you go to another. Finally, you find somebody you can talk to and that's who you go with. And this is where the people that went to Africa and the people that went to Asia and Europe and the people that came to America, they all scatter because that's what God has told them to do with. But God has not deal with that yet. So here we have a dispensation of manmade governments that Jesus is going to judge. Why is he going to judge? Because he's king of king and lord of lord. All government has to answer to him. Okay. Why is this important? Because the judgment of what the bible calls in revelation the kingdoms of this world are now the kingdoms of our lord is going to happen during this seven-year period. So I want you to see this. Now Jesus said one of the spiritual principles that Jesus taught is that the first shall be last and the last shall be first. Meaning this is the first dispensation that hasn't been judged yet will be judged last. When is the kingdoms of this world going to be judged? They are going to be judged in the second half of the wrath of God. The first half is 1,260 days. You have five days in between. And the second half is 1,290 days, which by the way is 7 years. 2555 days. At the end of 2555 days, the seven years exactly, God is going to begin the judgment of the kingdoms of this world. At that time, the head of the kingdoms of the world is going to be the antichrist. And he's going to mount an army with huge amounts of men to try to fight the Lord when he's coming. The Bible tells us, and when we get to this part of it, we'll see it, that this judgment of God is going to take place in 42 days. Daniel 12:11 tells you this, for uh 1,290 days. And they said, "Blessed is he who waits for and makes it to the 1,335 days." That means after the 2,290 days, God has 45 days. 42 days, that's seven time six. That means seven Sabbaths or seven weeks with beginning of a Sabbath and the end of the Sabbath, God is going to judge the kingdoms of this world. So before God can judge the kingdoms of this world, he has to bring the kingdoms of this world together. That's what we're experiencing today in our generation. For the first time since the days of Nimro when everybody spoke the same language, men from every nation on the world, I think there's 180 some nations in the world now. they can go into the United Nations and whoever the head of state is or whoever the representative is can go ahead and speak and every other member that's over there with their earphones on can hear everything that person is saying because the United Nations has an army of interpreters of every language that there is more than that we're living in a time to where you can have a body on the internet in China he doesn't know a thing of English and you don't don't know anything or Chinese, your computer can translate for you and you can type whatever you want to. It's translated to Chinese. He can send it back to you. And that is going on today. We're living in the day to when God is bringing the the kingdoms of this world into a time. That's why it's so important to see that. Then since man could not save himself in innocence and in conscience and in government, God introduced the promise. God took uh this guy named Abraham. Abraham was born and I have added the numbers and everything is locked up in in my garage so I couldn't have access so I'm going by memory which thank God is still pretty good. Abraham was born somewhere in 1990 1995. So I round it off to the year 2000. Abraham was born and and you'll see it at the bottom. I put it for you so you can have a graphic in your mind of the uh Bible timeline. Abraham was born around the year 2000 when he was about 70 years old. That's why I put there 2007 and these are approximate time except for the 1656. That was a set time. You can actually count the years from Adam to the time that the flood took place. But God calls his men named Abraham out of where Iraq is today. He calls him out into where Israel is today. And God enters into a covenant with this man. the covenant with of promise. Now the promise of God are eternal. The Bible says that the word of God is forever settled in heaven. I think Psalm 119 uh the word of God is forever settle in heaven. So when God gives you a promise is eternal because God is not bound by time. He's saying yesterday, today and forever. So if he promised you something today, it's just as good forever. So when God introduced the promise to Abraham, it was a two-fold promise. He says, "Out of your seed, I'm going to bring sand of the seashore." That's a physical promise. And as numerous as the stars in the sky, that is a key for a spiritual promise. So out of Abraham comes law and grace. Now the promise of God in the covenant was given about the year 2017. Now you read Paul in Romans and he says that we are joint hes with Abraham. We're part when he's discussing Israel and I think it's Romans 9:101 11 that area there he's discussing Israel and the church he says we're part of it because the promise was given to the man of faith Abraham. See when the woman that wasn't a Jew had a child that was demonp possessed and brings it to Jesus. Jesus says I can't heal him. God call me to the house of Israel first. So the woman says, "Yeah, but even the dogs get to eat the crumbs that fall out of the the table that the children the the bread the children's bread that falls out of the table." See, what she did is she bypassed Moses the law and she reached all the way to Abraham. Abraham is a man of faith. So when she says, "Yeah, I know that that you're coming to fulfill the law and that you're giving the bread to the children of Israel, but according to Abraham, I'm an heir, too, and I can partake of that bread." And Jesus said, "Your faith got you what you wanted." See, faith elevates above law or grace. Why? Because faith comes through Abraham, the man of faith, the friend of God. That's the covenant. That's the covenant that God honors. Even Noah, I mean, even Noah and Adam, when they went into paradise, they were under Abraham. Abraham is the one that was in charge of paradise. Why? Because paradise was a holding place until the true blood was shed. And who's the one that believe that? Abraham. And how did he believe that? He took three animals. He took two birds. He cut them on half. And he kept the verse of pray. And when evening came, God came like a torch and it passed through it. Back in the days of of of of Bible days, you enter into a covenant with a person. You took an animal. You cut the animal in half. You split the parts. It was a bloody mess in the middle. You would hold the hand of the person you were entering into a covenant with. And you walk through the blood and you say, "May the same thing happened to me if I don't keep my word." And your shoes got all bloody. That was a testimony. You have entered into a covenant. Well, Abraham didn't walk in there. This covenant was God who made it. He's the one that walked between the pieces. And he says, and and you know, did you know that the the the animals each represent a dispensation of time? There were three animals, uh, a goat, uh, a bull, and a ram. And they were cut in half. One, two, three, four, five, six. Each one of them represented the six years. Then you have a bird on each side, a fleshling bird and a dog. And the bird, remember, the kingdom is represented as an eagle. So that tells you the the first bird indicated the beginning of man in the spirit and the ending of man after the rapture he goes into the kingdom. So God was making a covenant for the whole 7,000 years when he enter into that. So we're part of the covenant that God made with Abraham. Now out of Abraham came the law. The law came first. And so the law came through Moses about 430 years after Abraham the year 2070. You add 430 years to 2070 and you come to about the year 2500. Like I said these are are all approximate numbers about 2500. This is 1500 years before Jesus Christ because remember now they count the time backwards. That's why it's easier for me to count it forward. From the time that Adam was created to the time that God entered into a covenant with Moses or revealed the law to Moses was two 2500 years. Now in the law God said to Moses tell the Israelites to purify themselves because in three days I'm going to come and show myself to them. They all purify themselves. God actually descends. This is not in physical body in his glory. He comes God covered himself in darkness like a huge dark cloud. This cloud came in and rested on Mount Si. Mount Sinai is in Saudi Arabia and to this burn up. The whole top is burned up. The Saudi Arabians know what happened there. So they have a big fence. There's many Christians try to sneak in there. They go to jail and everything because that's that is the place where God descended. See when they cross the Red Sea, they cross it from that big channel where where um Saudi Arabia is the Gulf of Aquabad. I I don't remember what they call that part there, but I mean this is no junky little thing. This thing is a huge place and they have a video to where their share wheels and everything down there. They came up with with a more they went back and and redid it again and got more pictures. I just got advertisement on it. So anyway, God comes into the mountain is thundering and shaking so bad. Moses says, "My knees are trembling." And the people say to Moses, "You know what? We can't handle this, God. We're going to go away. You talk to God and whatever God tells you, we'll do." And so that's how the covenant of the law came. Now, the covenant of law started in the year 2500. And the covenant law has not been judged yet. So the jud the law will be judged in the middle of the tribulation or in the day of of atonement. We'll get to that in a minute. So here remember we're talking about the last seven years. The last seven years 2555 days. That's seven years. At the end of the 200 2555 days, the kingdoms of this world are going to be judged. Then Jesus Christ is going to come and set up this kingdom of a thousand years. In the middle of it, after the 1,260 days, the first half, the law is going to be judged. We talked about this last week when we said that first for the first five months, the first war, which is the sixth trumpet, uh God releases all of the demons that are in hell into the earth. And people are tormented for five months. Five whole month they cannot die. Nobody can die at that time. But so that humans will know that hell is real. God does that. Then at the end of the five months, God releases the four angels that are bound to the river Euphrates. And they will kill onethird of all of the humans that are at that time. And this is fulfilled at the end of the 1,260th day. That's when the two witnesses are killed. That is a day of atonement for the Jews. So that means that law is going to be judged in the middle of this dispensation. Now the other thing that got introduced was grace. Grace begins with the word of God. The promise when the promise the word of God became flesh in the wood of in the womb of the woman. He was born. He lived fulfilled the law. He died our sacrificial death which is the Passover as the lamb of God. Remember when John saw him, John says, "Behold the lamb of God that takes the sin of the world." The sin of the world was represented by the feast of unleaven bread. And uh the Jews follow a lunar calendar and their year begins in March uh or April depending on their calendar. This is why Passover is different all the time. the 14th day of the first Jewish month which is a full moon because the 28 day cycle the full is moon the moon is full at the 14th day on the 14th day you're to celebrate the Passover in the evening it says as evening begins on the 15th day you are to celebrate the feast of unleaven bread and then on the Sunday after the next the first day of the week after the Sabbath you are supposed to celebrate the feast of first fruit. This is in Leviticus 23 if you want reference. So here we see that in grace, the dispensation of grace, the sixth dispensation, God fulfills all of this. Jesus is the word that became flesh in the seat of the woman, fulfilled the law, died the sacrificial death on the day of Passover as the lamb of God. That evening when they put his body before the sunset, remember the the the rich guy, Joseph, the rich guy came in and said, "We don't want to leave the bodies there." Pilate gave him permission. They took the body of Jesus, stopped it in the tomb before the sun said. That is when uh the feast of unleaven bread began. Jesus is the broken the body the bread that was broken for us to take away sin. This is what communion mean. The broken body when you take it takes away your sin away. He took away the sin of the world at that time by becoming our leaven bread. Then on the third day which will be uh Saturday night as Sunday begins in the evening. He rose up. He's the first born from the dead, the first fruit, the first human that is complete like God intended. He is totally physical yet totally spiritual because the spirit of God lives in him. That means he can walk through walls. He can take this physical body and disassemble every atom and walk through there because if you know air fills most of everything. You know they discover now you can magnify to the tiniest tiniest tin. Everything no matter how hard it is has air in between. Things are just hold together. Atoms are held together by some kind of a glue or whatever. And so Jesus can actually deotize his body and walk through walls. He can think I'm going I want to be in the moon and he can be there. You in the spirit you travel at the speed of thought. So this is what Jesus did. He rose up and and became our first fruit. Then he comes up shows himself to his disciples after appearing in the room where everything locked and says here fill me. A a ghost doesn't have a body like I have. You can feel it. And then he says, "Now you go preach the gospel to of the kingdom to the whole world, but first go to Jerusalem and wait until you're do endued with power." So 50 days later, 50 is 7* 7 which is 49. And then the 50th is the jubilee. The Holy Spirit comes and it falls upon the church. Now, we taught that when the sixth seal takes place, there's earthquakes and there's all kinds of things. That is the fulfillment of the second part of the promise that Peter read on the day of Pentecost when the church was filled with power because he said, "Your men and your sons and your daughters, they will prophesy. They will see vision. They will dream dreams." And all of that was fulfilled on the day of Pentecost. But he keeps quoting Joel and he says, "And there will be h a clouds and billows of smoke and there will be signs on the earth on the heaven above and on the earth beneath and all of the things going to happen when before the great day of the Lord and everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." So we can see now that Pentecost is the key pin that ties the first fruits or the first lot the the former reign as the Bible calls the first coming of Jesus to the latter reign the second coming of Jesus. So when the trumpet blows after the sixth seal is open and we can see in in in in Revelation chapter 7, people from every tribe and from every kindred and from every in there that is the fulfillment of the promise of God on when on the day of the blowing of trumpets or in the new year. See, because the Jews don't celebrate New Year's on the first day of their year, which is March or April. God says you work for six months, the seventh month, the first day of the seventh month. That is your new year. Why? Because that's when you enter into your rest. That is when you enter into your rest. So the Jews blow the trumpet, the chauffeur, on the first day of the seventh month. Guess what? The sixth chapter, the sixth seal, the 6,000 year, six, six, everything is six there. So, it takes you to the day of rest. So, the church then is rapture first. That's why Jesus says, "The first shall be last and the last shall be first." So, when the church is taken away, the seven years begin in the middle of the seven years, God is in and the age of and the age of grace concludes at the time. By the way, the age of grace will last 2,000 years because, as you can see, grace came in uh about 4,000 years after the creation of Adam. It it began Jesus was born on the on the on the beginning or on the end of the 4,000 years, the beginning of the fifth. And if you look at Genesis, that's when the physical sun was created. If you look at it in the creation, it says that there was light. Before the sun was created, there was light on the first day. There was light on the second day. There was light on the third day and the sun was created on the fourth day. This is why many people say, "Oh, the Bible, t

THE POWER OF THE TONGUE The objective of this teaching is to help believers recognize and apply the spiritual authority of their words. By aligning their speech with God’s Word, Christians can overcome negative influences such as depression, sickness, and fear, and instead walk in victory, joy, and confidence as more than conquerors through Christ. THE POWER OF THE TONGUE Minister Lisa Kane Objective: The objective of this teaching is to help believers recognize and apply the spiritual authority of their words. By aligning their speech with God’s Word, Christians can overcome negative influences such as depression, sickness, and fear, and instead walk in victory, joy, and confidence as more than conquerors through Christ. Synopsis: The Power of the Tongue by Lisa Kane is a personal testimony and biblical teaching based on Proverbs 18:21: “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.” Drawing from her own battle with depression, Lisa shares how she overcame through prayer and by boldly speaking against the spirit of depression. She recounts how declaring God’s truth aloud—commanding depression to leave and asking God for strength—brought freedom, joy, and lasting change in her life. The message emphasizes the power of words in shaping one’s reality, urging readers to consider what they are telling themselves daily. Negative confessions such as “I’m sick” or “I’m tired” reinforce defeat, while positive declarations rooted in God’s Word cultivate faith, healing, and strength. Lisa encourages believers to boldly use their tongue as a spiritual weapon, reminding them of Romans 8:37—“Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.” This teaching calls Christians to rise up in faith, reject destructive self-talk, and speak life-giving words that align with God’s promises, knowing that through Christ they are equipped to overcome every challenge. Inspired Teaching: Proverbs 18:21 New King James Version (NKJV) 21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit. I used to battle depression many years ago, but I overcame it by using the power of the tongue. This is what I did: First, it took me a few weeks to figure out what was wrong with me because I didn’t know. All I knew is that I was mean to everyone around me and I didn’t want to do anything. It was so out of character for me that I began asking God what was wrong with me. Then it hit me. God showed me that I was dealing with a spirit of depression. Once I knew what was wrong, I told my husband I was going to spend time in prayer and went to my bedroom. And this is what I said out loud, “Depression, you’re not welcomed here. Go away and leave me alone.” And then I asked God to forgive me and to help me overcome this spirit. I kept praying and telling depression to get lost for several hours. I eventually went to bed that way. I kept up the words in my mind, but I laid down and finally fell asleep. The next morning, I woke up extremely achy, but I had a smile on my face. I realized that was the best I had felt in a while. Depression was gone and I began walking in joy from that day on. Every once a while depression would try to sneak up on me but guess what, I would remind it that it wasn’t welcomed as part of my life and it would go away. This tactic wasn’t something I read or heard about. It was just something I did as I was praying to God. However, Proverbs 18:21 is so true. The power of the tongue is mighty, and you need to ask yourself, ‘what am I telling myself daily’? Are you telling yourself you’re sick? Are you telling yourself you're tired? Are you telling yourself you’re poor? Are you telling yourself you’re in pain? If I were you, I suggest telling yourself what a great person you are in the Lord and begin acting on it. The sick, tired, poor, and pain will line up according to your words. And if you’re really dealing with some serious spirits, go spend time in God’s presence in your home and tell them to get lost. You have a mighty tongue and are more than a conqueror. Romans 8:37 New King James Version (NKJV) 37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. Previous Next

DOMINION THROUGH ENLIGHTENMENT Equip “Vision for Women” to understand and reclaim God-given dominion by walking in true spiritual light—illumination that comes through God’s Word and the blood of Jesus—so the church can operate in unity, freedom from sin’s power, and confident authority in Christ. DOMINION THROUGH ENLIGHTENMENT Pastor Marcos Marrero March 2, 2007 Objective: Equip “Vision for Women” to understand and reclaim God-given dominion by walking in true spiritual light—illumination that comes through God’s Word and the blood of Jesus—so the church can operate in unity, freedom from sin’s power, and confident authority in Christ. Synopsis: This fourth message in the dominion series teaches that dominion means exercising the authority God originally gave humanity, restored through Jesus. True dominion is recovered “through enlightenment”—the light of God’s Word versus the counterfeit “light” of the world. Using vivid contrasts (pitch-black tunnels vs. illumination), the teaching shows that Scripture reveals reality as it truly is and exposes Satan’s false, glittering narratives that enslave. Anchored in 1 John 1:5–9, the message explains: God is light; walking in that light produces fellowship/unity and continual cleansing by Jesus’ blood. Confession restores communion and clears the conscience so faith can operate without doubt. The tabernacle pattern illustrates how blood (life) fuels light (glory), pointing to Christ’s once-for-all offering that releases revelation and power. The church often loses dominion through idolatry, ignorance, and walking in darkness (practicing religion without revelation). Dominion returns as believers: Know and practice the Word (“It is written”), refusing divided hearts and human reasoning that replace truth with “instead-of-Christ” substitutes. Stay cleansed and confident—apply 1 John 1:9 immediately, believing God’s mercy (Lam. 3:22–23) and refusing shame that neutralizes faith. Walk in unity so the Body can wield corporate authority (John 17; Matthew 18). Exercise authority in Jesus’ name over personal “mountains” and even creation when led by the Spirit (Mark 11:23; examples from Jesus calming storms and Elijah praying for rain). Humble themselves to receive grace (James 4:6), trusting God’s goodness amid trials (Romans 8:28). Practical illustrations (traffic school, military rifle training, Adam’s test in Eden) underscore that dominion operates by believing God’s verdict over Satan’s accusations. The call is to live as light-bearers—daily in Scripture, quick to confess, steadfast in unity, and bold to say “It is written”—so the ministry and its leaders carry God’s will with power in a darkened world. Inspired Teaching - Written and/or Transcribed from Video Above: Let's open our word prayer. Father in heaven in Jesus name, we thank you and we praise you for this opportunity that we have, Father God, to to partake of your word, dear Lord Jesus. We ask for direction, Father. Uh all things that pertain to life and godliness come from you, Father God. And we want to make sure that everything that we do is in accordance to your good and perfect will, Father God. We don't want to settle for less. So I pray, dear Lord Jesus, that um this ministry here, Vision for Women, Father God, that that you will bring the anointing uh that reveals, Father God, your good will and perfect will for this house, Father God. And we pray that uh you will enable and empower those whom you have entrusted here, Father God, to carry out your will and purpose for this house, Father God. In Jesus name, we thank you for your anointing tonight. open our ears that we may hear. Give us a heart to understand and to receive. Father God, in Jesus name we thank you Lord. Amen. Amen. Praise God. This is our fourth week and I share on the u dominion on the last um three weeks and dominion meaning to exercise authority. Last Sunday I spent eight hours on uh comfor or whatever traffic school and the very first thing the guy said it says you violated the law. There was 14 of us there said you violated the law therefore you did the crime now you got to do the time so you got to spend eight hours over here. I don't want to hear anybody complain. Hi Marshall. So um uh dominion means not to rule. You know once I violated the law I committed myself and I have to go there otherwise I can just pay the ticket like I did and pay high insurance for the next three years. So you know that was a thing I had to pay them $40 and give them eight eight hours of my life you know. Uh but dominion means somebody has rule over you because of you know something that you violated or you having dominion over somebody because of the dominion that has been given to you. And in the first two weeks we deal with the u the dominion that has been given uh to us individually. And then last uh Friday night I dealt with how the church itself has lost his dominion. The dominion that was given due to the abominations and the idolatry and those different things that get uh talked about. So tonight we're going to speak about the dominion that we can regain through enlightenment. Uh as you know I'm some of you may know I'm pretty much into numbers. Numbers is the only perfect thing that we have. You know, I speak two languages. I speak full Spanish. I spoke only Spanish for 18 and a half years. And English is my second language that I learned. And one thing that I learned even with two languages that you cannot always express your sentiments and your feelings with words. They're just not adequate adequate words to express oneself. Sometimes we're we're inadequate. You cannot translate things perfectly. They're always uh messed up like that. So, uh, but there's one thing that's perfect. Whether you're saying 2 + 2 or do quatro, you're always going to come up with the same in numbers. I don't care whether you do in Russian or Chinese, you multiply 2 * 2, the answer is going to be the same no matter what language. That's the the beauty about mathematics. So, mathematics is perfect. The word of God is composed of 22 Hebrew letters. There's 22 word letters in the Hebrew alphabet. And um and the word uh uh the word of God if you look at it when it ends the revelation has 22 chapters. The number 22 means light. It is a number of light. As a matter of fact you take um this guy had a a tremendous book I was reading. You take uh uh the word light the distance from the the light travels all those things you can break it down and breaks down perfectly uh to what the word of God light means revelation. We need to think whenever you think of light you have to think of light in the difference between light and darkness. one time when I was a teenager and uh didn't speak hardly any English and I was hanging around with some guys. They invited me to go someplace and I didn't know what it was but I said I'll go with you guys and it was to the LA River over there by Florence and Firestone and it was to go through the uh drainage system to go walk up in there. Those are huge. Some of them you can walk straight anyway. So we started walking. We walked probably six miles inland, believe me. And we got so deep in some of those places. It was so dark. They have some flashlights and things like that. But anyway, would turn the lights out and you cannot see absolutely nothing. I mean, it's just pitch pitch pitch dark. Total and complete darkness. And of course, we had the police waiting for us when we came out because we were speaking through the manholes and we're doing all kinds of bad things that we're doing back then. But the contrast of light and darkness means that light allows you to see your environment. You see, if you turn the lights out completely dark and you can walk in the dark, if you're used like I like to get up at night and walk around because I know where everything is at. But let anything just be moved out of place and you're gonna hear w you know hitting something. So we need to understand that light is in the word of God is illumination, enlightenment, revelation, the ability to see clearly. This is what the word of God does. The word of God allows us to see reality, to see things how they really are. many of us and and I know I'm I'm taking a little bit too long setting this up, but I want you to do understand that the reality that this world portrays is not the real thing. We need to understand that this world is is is manipulated by Satan. Satan is called the god of this world. Satan manipulates the money system. Sa Satan manipulates the social system. Satan manipulates the learning system. Satan manipulates and he has built himself a false reality in which most of us dwell in that false reality and the things that seem real to us are not you know it takes that Anna Nicole she was talking she was watching that that on TV today all of that money and fame and whatever what a miserable life I mean her son which was 20 dead she's dead buried next You know that's not life. Yet in the world people clamor and long for those things. Why? Because the world is is is turn upside down. There's a false reality. A lot of people I uh I work in in houses. I see people that that that that have mansions and huge houses and all of these things and they get to the end of their life, none of their children are around. Their grandchildren don't come around. You know, it is sad to get to a point in your life to where you get old and realize, man, I worked last 50, 60 years of my life and what did I really achieve? I mean, I miss what life is really about. So, what I'm trying to say here is that the word of God is able to enlighten or bring revelation that allows us to see things for what they are, the reality of what things really are. And when we're able to see that, then we will see that we have dominion, that God made us rulers. Imagine this. If you own Manhattan, that island over there in New York where all of those huge buildings and property so expensive, and having somebody coming in and trying to give you some beads for the island, that's how they bought it from the Indians, by the way. They they just brought him some shiny stuff. They gave it to them and they got Well, that's what Satan has done with all of us. Yeah. Yeah. Get him some uh fire water, how they used to call it or something like that. That that is that is what Satan has done. He has offer us something that shines, something that glitters, something that looks like is, "Oh man, I never seen this." But yet we in reality are the ones who own the real thing. See, because the dominion was given to man, not to Satan. The dominion was given to us. So the word of God, when we get the proper perspective, when we get the proper enlightenment, when we get the proper illumination or revelation, the word of God is able to set us straight to where we can see who really dominates. See, the reality is that most Christians today live in fear of Satan or are dominated by Satan or are controlled by Satan or are living under the influence of of demonic influence of Satan when in reality should be the other way around. We rule. We rule. We The dominion was given to Adam. We're Adam. We're the humans. And and Adam lost it. And Jesus came out and regain it. He said Jesus came that he might destroy the works of the devil. And he did. He destroyed the works of the devil and then he left and he left us in charge. We are in charge. That's why I said what Jesus said you never prayed on my name but from now on from a certain day when the day he told us that but from now on you will pray on my name and whatever you ask the father in my name he will give it to you. Why? Because I'm taking charge. I'm taking authority. I came. You see, God made a law and the law was he created the physical universe and the law was in order for you to operate on the physical universe, you need a physical body. That's the law. Spirits cannot operate on this uni. This is why Satan cannot kill. Don't you think if Satan could grab that that kitchen knife that you got in your kitchen and and slit your throat while you're sleeping that he wouldn't do it? He wouldn't even hesitate. He wouldn't even hesitate. But guess what? He ain't got no hands. He can't get a hold of that stuff. So what does he have to do? He had to get somebody else out there crazy enough to come after you or he has to get you crazy enough to where you got the knife and you cut yourself. You see this is how he operate. So in order for us to operate in this physical realm, you got to have a physical body. And God excluded himself from that. When he gave dominion to Adam, Adam was to rule. And God could not rule because God would not come. God is spirit. They that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. So God did not have a body. So when Satan came in and swindled this dominion from Adam, God had to become a man. And that is in one of the Psalms and in Hebrews says, "A body you prepared for me." The word of God, which is the light, the word of God is light, came in and dwelt in a physical body. In the physical body, he bore the transgression of all humans. Every single human. That includes Hitler. That includes Fidel Castro. That includes all of these bad people out there. He bore the transgression of everybody. He died on the cross. And then since he was sinless, death could not hold him anymore. He came back to life and all the dominion was given to him. And then he says, "I will build my church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it." And then he gave his church the authority. Why? Because his church has a physical body. He's ahead. He's in heaven. But we are the church. We're the physical body. So in order for us to exercise dominion, we need to understand, we need to be enlightened. We need to understand the difference between this false reality that Satan has built around us and the real reality that we have been given dominion. Amen. Now, with that in mind, let us go to first John. And if you got your notes, you have all of the scripture there in your note. And first John 1:9 says, "But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin." Now, notice the statement that John made. Now, it's amazing that John is writing first and second and third John after he was taken up to heaven and he wrote the book of Revelation. He went from all of those years. He was about 90 years old living in the in with a physical mentality even though he was trained by Jesus, even though he was an apostle, even though he preached. Then one day he gets taken up to heaven and he gets to see this physical realm from the other side. He got to see it. This is why the uh you read Matthew, Mark, and Luke, they're all make sense. They're called the synoptic gospels because they're all concordant. You read John is weird. John is a spiritual is the spiritual revelation of the word of God. It's totally different. You read the book of revelation. Do they say people are scratching their heads? They don't know what it mean. Why? Because the spiritual revelation has to be understood through spirit through the spirit which is the word of God. And the same way with first and second and third John in in in first and second John is the only place where you find the word antichrist or instead of Christ. Paul speaks about him in in Thessalonian but he calls him the man of sin, the man of pition. But anti doesn't mean against means instead of. In other words, there's a false Christ. So there's a false light that rules and prevails like oh this is the real Christ and it's not. And then he says that if we walk in the light as he is in the light, that means if we walk with spiritual enlightenment, if we walk in a way that we can see the spiritual reality that is around us and look at the purposes and we have fellowship with one another. Now, why is that so important? Because the power comes through unity. See, if we're a body, then we have to walk as a body. Imagine if my hand wanted to go that way and my leg wanted to go this way and my head wanted to turn around and my ear wanted to go this way. I would be immobilized. I would be paralyzed. I couldn't move. So everything has to walk. So the spirit of God is here on the earth and he's moving through his body. That means different individuals to walk by the revelation of the light to walk in unison or to walk together. And then he goes and he says that the blood of Jesus you there's three parts here. If we walk in the light as he's in the light, we have fellowship with one another. And the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin. Now last week I finished with the part that in the holy place uh there was a curtain and and and uh in the first part what is called the uh the holy place you have the manora for light because this was a tent that had four thick covers over it. They had big huge double curtain. So when you enter in there there was total and complete darkness. So because of that there was this uh luminora in this side of the room and it was supposed to be kept lit all the time. So when the priest came through the curtain and came into the holy place to put the table of uh the bread on the table that uh that had to be replaced every week or to offer the incense on the altar of incense or to light up or put more oil. That's the light that he worked by. But there was a thick thick curtain, a big thick curtain here. And the ark of the covenant was behind that curtain. And there was no light in there. There was absolutely no light. So when the priest went in there, it was total darkness. The only light that was there was the presence of God which rested in the ark. Here's a picture of the ark right here. The presence of God would sit. And that presence was so strong in the days of Moses. The light shone from there. The light went all through the tabernacle and the light form a cloud that covered them by day and gave him light by night so that they wouldn't have to walk in darkness. This is the it's called shakina. It's the manifested light or visible glory of God. This is what was in there. Well, this light when when the tabernacle was there will be on the mercy seat. And as the priest came once a year into that darkened place, the only light that it would be would be resting right on the mercy seat. And as he brought the blood of the sacrifice and the blood was accepted and he dipped the blood on the mercy seat, the blood which symbolizes the life because the Bible says the life is in the blood. As the life was poured, the light would come alive. It's like the light was fed, the glory, the anointing was fed. Why? Because without the shedding of blood, there's no remission of sin. And the the nation was a sinful nation. So the nation had to do what Moses told them. They had to bring an animal. The animal had to be killed. the sins of the nation. The high priest will lay his hands on the head of the goat and the sins of the nation for that one year would be transferred upon the goat. Then the goat would be killed and when the blood was brought up in there that satisfied the requirements of a righteous God and the blood would cause the light to come. The Bible tells us that Jesus, our high priest, went and when he offered himself on the cross, his blood, the life that was in his blood was collected by the eternal spirit, which is the Holy Spirit and was brought to the temple of God in heaven. There's a real thing. Those were just pictures. And up in there was when the blood, the life of Jesus was poured. And when that life was poured, revelation immediately came. Enlightenment came. They came vision, the revelation, the ability to see. So here John is giving us a description of what he saw in heaven. If we walk in the light as he is in the light, then we're one. We have quania. We're one. Quania means like grapes. We're all individuals, but they're all connected. We're we're one. And then he says, and then the blood of Jesus, he says, the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin. Why? Because the blood of Jesus is the light. See, the word of God is the light. In John 1:1 says, "In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God." In John 1:14 says, "And the word became flesh and that flesh died." The life that was in the flesh was in the blood was offered. Why? For an enlightenment or for revelation. So we see that the blood of Jesus and the word of God are very much interconnected when you apply. See all of us have an inner san like that by the way you're have a physical body which is the outer temple then you have an inner core which is your soul and then you have the holy place where your spirit reside. If you're born again, Jesus, God the Father, and the Holy Spirit, they're all in your inter sanctum in your spirit. Your spirit is made alive. Every time you go into that place and you apply the blood, there's a tremendous revelation. There's a tremendous anointing. There's a tremendous release of energy and power. Like we talked last week uh in Hebrews 4:12, the word of God is living alive and active. That means energy. There's energy in the word of God. So every time Satan say, "You're nothing but a loser." And I said, "By the blood of Jesus, by the stripes of Jesus, I being healed. I'm taking the word of God. I'm taking the life of blood of the blood. I'm putting it into my soul." And the anointing immediately comes up. The light comes up, the revelation comes up, and Satan has to flee. Every time he accuses you and you proclaim the word of God, he has to flee. And that's what he very plainly says there. So the abominations which have come against us and against the body of Christ which all have to do with uh with uh idolatry and harlotry. It is only the blood of Jesus when he's released that anointing, the revelation, that enlightenment that is able to restore us to fellowship with God. You see, sin separates us from God. Okay? Every single one of us walk today and we sin. You either said a lie or you thought about something you shouldn't think of or you hated somebody without a cause. Whatever sins we committed during the day, as soon as you confess your sin, which is two verses down, 1 John 1:9, if we confess our sins, he's faithful and just not only to forgive us our sins, but to cleanse us. Okay? So, every single time we confess our sins, we apply the the word of God to us. John 3:16, God so loved the world, God loves me. Um, Lamentations 3:22-23. His mercy are new every morning. I don't care how bad I messed up yesterday. I can get up this morning and pray. There's a whole brand new batch of mercy and grace for me. There's a brand new and I can apply that and as I apply that, there's revelation. The revelation means I am forgiven. I am accepted. But then also there's a responsibility because with the word of God comes revelation. Why is it that I always have to lie? Why is it that I always have to do this? Or why is it that I always have to do that? Then as I begin to meditate, the revelation of God begins to enlighten me to the strongholds and the things that I need to deal with. Because you see, we sin. We're not sinners because we sin. We sin because we're sinners. We were born sinners. When you were born a child and you were uncomfortable, the very first thing you went in, if you don't get your way, you cry. Why? Because that's a selfish nature. That's how we're born. So God doesn't say you lousy sinner. God says, "No, you have no choice but to sin because that's in your blood. But I have a remedy for sin. And it is up to you to apply that remedy, to put it to work so that you can be set free. I put a switch in your darkened room. Turn it on. Turn that switch on. Let the light come on. Let the revelation appear. Let the blood release that anointing so that I can set you free. and not only you personally but so that I can bring you corporate corporately into a place of power and exercise in dominion. Now look at I'm going to be going one verse up. The next verses 1 John 1:6. If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness, we lie and we do not practice the truth. What is he talking about? He said, "You can be a Christian. You can go to church every Sunday and you can say, "Hey, man. I go to church every Sunday and I Hallelujah. Praise the Lord." And I said, "Oh, that listen, you can proclaim and and and and be part of a denomination and worship the Lord every day. If you're walking in darkness, you don't have the light." That is simply what he's saying. How do you work in darkness? Well, if you don't know what uh uh you know what's causing you to sin, or if you don't know what's causing you to mess up, if you don't know what's causing you to be the way you are, that's because you don't have revelation. And if you don't have revelation, you're walking in darkness. Unfortunately, many churches today, you you you go in and you come out the exact same way that you went in because there's no revelation. Revelation is the anointing. There's no conviction of sin. And when there's conviction of sin, there's no remedy for us to stop going sinning. You can have a great anointed service, go forward and repent, but then after 150 more times committing the same sin, your heart gets hardened. You go to church, you hear the same message again, and man, I've been there, done that 150 times. That's not what I need. What I need is revelation. What I need is an anointing. What I need is power, dominion over this thing that's got a hold of me. Because if I can break that hold of that thing, man, I need change in my life. You see, that revelation comes in, that's where the power comes in. So he says, if we say we're Christian and then we're having a good old time and everything else, but it it if if we're not practicing the truth, then we're walking in darkness. Notice that it uses the word practice. That's the same word that uh by the way that uh they use for doctors. Don't you hate that? Going to a doctor and he's practicing on you. They practice medicine. That's because they really don't know. They're just going along with it. They're practicing. They have a lot of knowledge. But but that's what he's saying there. We're practicing quote unquote Christianity. But if it's in darkness, it's not revelation, then we're not really practicing the truth, are we? Why? Because Jesus said, "You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." So Jesus said this, they said, "Hey, we're not slave to nobody." The Pharisees said to him, "We're heirs of Abraham." He says, "Anybody who slave uh uh anybody who commits sin is a slave to sin." Only truth. Truth is light, enlightenment, revelation. See, once you realize that your head is itching because you got a bunch of little lies in there that driving you nuts, then you don't have to scratch that itch anymore. You go out and get that medicine and you put it on and you get that real fine come and you get those little critters on their legs out and you solve the problem. When we realize that the reason why we sin is because we got this things on us that is driving us to do it and to do it and to do it and to do it and as long as you don't know, you don't know. You can live in a jungle some place because you can't see them. Most of them are too small to see them anyway. So it requires enlightenment. It requires revelation. It requires truth. Once we realize that then we can address the problem. The problem with us is sin, deepseated sin that has taken away our dominion. We don't have dominion because we walk in sin. Jesus said, "Speak to the mountain. Tell it to go out, get out of your way, and jump into the sea. The only condition is if you do not doubt in your heart that what you're saying is going to come to pass, it will be done for you. The only condition is if you do not allow. So I have a mountain in my life. It can be a mountain of bills, can be a mountain of debt, can be a mountain of uh torment, fear, uh persecution, whatever it is is coming against you. You have authority to speak to the mountain. The only condition is what you really believe in your heart. So you see this is where the heart is the holy place where the blood of Jesus every time we doubt that God will bless us because we have sinned even though we have confessed that sin we are actually putting to shame the blood of Jesus. We're saying in a sense the blood of Jesus was not good enough for that sin. I got to do some penitence first. You see I that sin was bigger. Uh, it was okay to repent of that little light, but sniffing that whole thing of cocaine, that was a lot stronger. I'm I'm I'm gonna have to at least be banished for about six months before because the blood of Jesus, you see, this is the mentality of it. Doubt in the heart, the heart is where the blood of Jesus is applied. If I can understand that the blood of Jesus is able to take away my sin and that the only beef that God has with me because he calls sin in the New Testament missing the mark and the only beef that he has with me is that if I'm walking in darkness and not seeing what the root of the problem is so that he can give me that remedy and I can take that root out like Jesus said every plant that my heavenly father has not planted will be uprooted. Everything that is in our heart that is not from God, he wants to uproot it. But he needs our permission. He needs our working with him. And the only way that that happens is through revelation. Now look at verse 5. We start at 1 John 17, 1 John 1:6, and 1 John 15 because I want to tie it all together. He says, "This is the message which we have heard from him and declared to you that God is light and in him there is no darkness." Now you see the message. God is light. Light can be used as good provider. He's faithful. Everything that ever has anything to do with good, that's what God is. God is good. He is light. And in him, there is absolutely no darkness at all. So if I am dealing with any part at all that has any darkness to it, then I'm not walking in the light. Right? There's a couple of notes over there if you can pass into. Oh, there you go. You got anyway. So he says that God is light and in him there is no darkness at all. Now let me put this into context. There was uh we were listening to the radio coming down and the news. I was trying to get the traffic made sure that everything was fine and there was uh was it a a tornado I think that hit a high school and eight kids on the high school were killed and they were speaking to one of the teachers. They said they did everything. They had a a system in case of an emergency were to get all the kids together. They were saying that everything that could have been done that were done and that they say kids were killed because it was an act of God. That what they call it. The insurance forms they call it like that. An act of God. God came in and he killed those eight helpless little kids that were just going to school there. It's an act of God. Yeah, it was an act of God. But not the God we're talking about, not the God we're serving. Jesus, John 10:10 says, "Satan comes to steal, to kill, and to destroy." So if people were killed, that was the God of this world. That wasn't the God we serve. Okay? If there were people that were injured, were in the hospital, their health was taken away from them. That is not Jesus said, "I came to that you may have life and have it more abundantly." Did you know that we as believers have been given authority, dominion even over the weather? If we, the church of the Lord Jesus Christ, was operating in the power and the dominion that Jesus gave us, we could speak to that tornado and tell them to shut up because Jesus did it. Jesus saw the storm coming up and and the disciples were all freaking out. Why is that on the Bible? Was Jesus showing off? No, he was just showing them what what what man was has been given by God. Man has been given authority. So they woke Jesus up. They're uh a fisherman. They know how to handle. They know they're in a mess. They tell Jesus, "Wake him up. Don't you care that we perish?" He gets up. I can I can maybe He was a little tired and he wanted some rest and he was just kind of getting a little fed up with the little faith that his disciples had. So he tells the thing to shut up and then he tells you a little faith. You know I shown you the power and the authority that God has given us. When Jesus says from this time you never pray in my name but from now on whatever you pray in my name whatever you ask the father in my name it will be given to you. What was Jesus saying? He's saying, "I am depositing upon you, my people, my church, the authority, the dominion to rule over this realm." We have authority to rule over this realm. You can speak to the mountain. You can speak to the drought. Elijah was a man just like us. He could tell, "Do not rain until I tell you." So, for three and a half years, it did not rain. He could tell the rain. Okay, it's time to start. There may not be a cloud in the whole sky. He got down on his knees and he began to pray. He said, "Lord, you gave me authority. You spoke to me. You gave me your word. You said, "Whatever you speak, I'm going to bring it to pass." His servant went over the hill and look up. They're not a cloud in the sky, master. He got back down on his knees. He say, "Hey, uh, over there the weather channel, whoever is in charge of the weather up there is calling." Hey guy, I'm calling over here. Could you hear me? I want some rain and I don't want it tomorrow. I want it right now. You understand? He's praying. So he tell his servant, "Go back up there again." So his servant goes back up here. Well, there's a little cloud there, but it's no bigger than my fist. So he gets back down again and say, "Listen, I don't want a fist full of rain, okay? I want the whole shebang. I want you to send me superers size it. You know, send the whole storm. And in less than an hour, boom, there it came. Now, what was God? Was God showing off? No. God is just simply showing us the reality that we as the the body of Christ, the the authority that has been given us in the name of Jesus, we have been given dominion. That dominion is to rule over this earth over the realm of the earth. We have been given that power. Now it hasn't been given to an individual has been given to a body. That's why he says if we walk in the light as he is in the light we have fellowship one with another means we're in unity. We're together in this. We understand one another. Then the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin. The blood of Jesus gets applied to our sins. We get cleansed from our sins and now we can walk in the authority and the dominion, the revelation because the anointing is enlightenment. See, when I was in the Marines for the first 90 days, I think that I was there, they give you a rifle that doesn't have a firing pen and doesn't have no bullets. Some people would could find the bullet someplace. That's why they take the firing pen out of your rifle. And for three months they treat you as if that rifle is loaded. And every time you misplace that rifle and in any little way, boy, they jump all over you. They'll even steal your rifle to punish you because you're supposed to have it in your possession at all times. Even when you go take a shower, you got to make sure it's on a place w Previous Next

EVE BORN AGAIN The objective of this teaching is to begin a new series on Women in the Bible by focusing on Eve, the first woman created by God, and to reveal how her creation, purpose, and role connect to the biblical truth of being born again. The lesson emphasizes the foundation of Genesis, the meaning of God’s image in male and female, and how this connects to Jesus’ ministry, crucifixion, and the birth of the Church through water and Spirit. EVE BORN AGAIN Minister Lisa Kane May 9, 2024 Objective: The objective of this teaching is to begin a new series on Women in the Bible by focusing on Eve, the first woman created by God, and to reveal how her creation, purpose, and role connect to the biblical truth of being born again. The lesson emphasizes the foundation of Genesis, the meaning of God’s image in male and female, and how this connects to Jesus’ ministry, crucifixion, and the birth of the Church through water and Spirit. Synopsis: In this message, Lisa Kane introduces the Women in the Bible series, starting with Eve as the mother of all living. Drawing from Genesis, she explains that Adam was created from the dust of the ground while Eve was formed from Adam’s rib, showing God’s design of unity, protection, and partnership between man and woman. This creation account also reflects the fullness of God’s image, represented in both male and female. Lisa then connects Eve’s story to the deeper spiritual truth of being born again. Using the imagery of physical birth—water and blood—she parallels it with Jesus’ words to Nicodemus about being born of water and the Spirit. Through Christ’s crucifixion, where His heel was bruised and His side pierced, the Church was birthed by blood and water, fulfilling God’s promise from Genesis. The teaching highlights how Eve’s creation, physical birth, and the union of man and woman serve as foreshadows of spiritual rebirth through Jesus Christ. It shows that believers, born again by water (the Word) and the Spirit, are called to live as one body in Christ, reflecting God’s image and carrying His kingdom into the world. The message closes by reminding men to cover and protect their wives, women to guard the inner parts of their husbands, and both to walk together as one flesh, empowered by the Spirit of God. Inspired Teaching - Written and/or Transcribed from Video Above: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kaine. I'm recording this on Thursday, May 9th, 20124. Let's open up in a word of prayer first today. Father God, we thank you for your word and we pray that your word does not return void. We pray that the audience who listens to this word has an open mind and heart to receive and believe in your word and to apply your word to their lives to have an understanding that you provide for us through your word. I pray that your holy spirit speaks to their hearts and minds through this message that you move me aside. Let your holy spirit speak through me and articulately and perfectly. Thank you, Father God, for your living word. We praise you and honor you in the name of Jesus. Amen. Amen. Amen. I welcome each and every one of you. Today I'm going to begin a new series. I took last week off and uh we we had some celebrations of birthdays and family events and did some traveling there. So now I'm back and we're gonna begin a new series called Women in the Bible. Now men, don't jump ship yet. This is just as much for you as it is for women. Especially this particular first message that we're going to talk about. We're going to be starting with Eve. Now, I can teach on Eve at least three parts that I have just in the top of my head. But today, we're going to talk about Eve, and we're going to be talking about being born again. You're going to see the message of being born again from the very beginning to when Jesus was crucified to the time that we live today. Amen. So, this is an awesome word. So, let's begin. So, women of the Bible, this is the first message in that series and we're going to talk about Eve and we're going to be talking about being born again. We're going to start here in Genesis 1:27. Uh I'm in the King James version. So God created man or the word man there also means self in his own image. The word image there means to shade or be a phantom in the image of God plural gods. That's what this word god means. Created he him male and female created he them. So let's lay a little bit of foundation here so that you understand what's taking place here. So there are two books of the Bible that are attacked the most. Genesis and Revelation. Satan had attacked them so much that a lot of people don't believe in creation. A lot of people don't believe uh that the Lord created the earth in six days and rested on the seventh. They they try to extrapulate what they believe science to be true and try to fit it or force it into the scriptures. The scriptures are very very clear. And um it it is really unfortunate to not have enough pastors and teachers and preachers doing apologetics in the book of Genesis and the book of Revelation. So I truly uh encourage you to check your teachings that you're listening to. Do you hear anyone teaching on Genesis or Revelation? If so, great. If not, you may need to supplement because you need to know the beginning. If you know the beginning, it's going to help you with today. And you're going to see that in this message is really incredible. So here we have Eve. She is the first woman of the Bible. She is the mother of all. So she is a created person just like Adam. The difference is that Adam was created of the earth and Eve was formed from the rib of a man. So let's go to the scripture. Now I before I dig into that, let's look at this deep part of this particular scriptures of what God is saying. He says created man self. This is God's self in us. Please understand that we're in his image. So his self is in us. Now look at how he did this. In his own image, in the image of God. He's multiple parts created. He him male and female. He created them. Listen, there's some revelation here. We know God as male and we see that he is represented as male throughout the entire scripture. So when you see gods or plural, we know that there is the godhead. God the father, God the son, God the holy spirit. Yes, the word trinity is not in the Bible. But the word trinity means the godhead. And you can see the structure. It is biblical. It is in the word of God. So we know that God the father we you see him treated as a male. You know God the son that became Jesus that is male. He was born a man. So here you've got that representation. Now look what he says though. He says in the image of God created he him. Now there's something to that too because we're doing a transliter uh King James version does a transliteration of the original text. he him of the parts of he and him. But then look at what he says here next. Male and female created he them. So in other words, when he created Adam, Adam cannot be by himself. Adam cannot make life by himself. He cannot procreate without woman. So you have to have male and female in order to procreate and create life. If all men were by themselves in one generation, the earth would die. That's how this works. Same with all women. If you had all women, because you do not have that sperm to procreate life, the earth would die in one generation. So, male and female. Now, let's look at how God created the image, how they put together that fulfills the image of God because it is male and female and they were created differently. So, let's go look at that. So here Adam was created. Let's go to Genesis 2:7. And the Lord God formed through and the word formed there means through the squeezing into shape man of the dust. That word dust means earth or mud of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. And man became a living soul. Existed as a living soul. That's how Adam was created. He was formed by the dirt, the earth, the mud and the ground. That's how God decided to make him. And then he breathed into his nostrils and he became alive in existence a soul, a living creature sensient. Okay. Now let's look at how Eve was made. So Genesis 2:21-24. And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam and he slept and he took one of his ribs. Now the word rib there means a part of or the side curved part of the body and closed up the flesh instead thereof. And the rib which the Lord God had taken from man made he a woman and brought her unto man. And Adam said, "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called woman because she was taken out of man. Therefore shall a man leave loose in his father and his mother and shall cleave or cling adhere catch unto his wife and they shall be one flesh." Now let's look at this. So Adam was made from the dirt of the earth. So here's God and he makes Adam directly straight from the dirt of the earth. But instead of making woman from this uh dirt of the earth, he goes and puts man in his sleep and he takes one of the ribs. Notice he didn't take a piece of Adam's brain. So she is not equal in the head. He did not take a part of his foot. So she can be equal to his footing or his standing or he you know there's no dominion over or Adam dominion over Eve. There is no dominion because it wasn't taken by the feet either. Took it from the rib. What does the rib do? The rib cage encases all of our vital organs. So he took from the edge of it which is where it sits at the bottom left hand side under the heart. He takes that rib and he forms woman. What does that mean? Well, man can put his arm around woman and she could be tucked in here next to his heart. He covers her. He protects her and she protects him because of the rib that is what protects the vital parts. She protects him on the inside and they become one flesh. So when God looks at a married couple, he sees one individual, not two individuals. He sees male and female. And by the way, that completes the image of God because God is plural. So he embedded the pluraless into us, male and female. And then what do we get to do as a blessing? We get to procreate and have children and expand and populate the earth is what we have the privilege of doing. So Eve was made for this purpose and every woman since is made for this p purpose. Now, when we get into this series, you're going to see some women who fulfilled that purpose very well, and you're going to see some who did not. And hopefully, we can learn from their examples of what they did and and the impact that they had on generations after they were existed. Amen. That's why I want to do this series. Oh, it's so good. Now, let's go a little further here because let's talk about the birthing process here because I want to get into being born again and show you how Jesus works in this. So, when a woman ha gives birth, first comes the water. The water breaks, the baby comes. What comes second or the third after the baby is the placenta sack or the blood sack. This is the blood that fulfilled and u met all the needs of the embryo, the fetus, the child within the womb. So you have water and you have blood. Now where does Jesus come into this? Let's go to John 1:1 real quick. In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God. So when Jesus when if you read Genesis 1:1 and you see the spirit of God hovering over the waters of the earth, Jesus is the one who said, "Let there be light and there was life." Jesus is the one who created Adam. Jesus is the power that did all of this creation and he created Eve out of the rim. This is what Jesus did. Now, what is going on here? What is happening here? Because Jesus is demonstrating something in the creation of his image between male and female and procreating. So, let's look at a conversation that Jesus has in his time with Nicodemus. So, we're going to go to John 3 3-6. Jesus answered and said unto him, talking to Nicodemus, "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born, procreate again, he cannot see or know the kingdom of God." Nicodemus sayaith unto him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb and be born?" Jesus answered, "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born of water and of the spirit, he cannot enter the into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the spirit is spirit." Now remember the physical birth involved water and blood. Jesus is saying now I am going to tell you it needs to be water and the spirit to be born again. So how does this work? So the wa the living word of God is the water. And so when you immerse yourself into the living word of God, you become born again because you when you confess Jesus, Romans 10:9 says that if you confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord and believe that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. I've been teaching on this for a long time. So now what happens is he says you cannot enter the kingdom of God unless you're born with water and the spirit. What is the kingdom of God? What did Jesus do when he was walking in the on the earth? He was healing people, delivering people, saving people, letting the blind be seen. That is the kingdom of God. So if you want to go into ministry after you confess Jesus as your Lord and Savior, you cannot go into ministry until you are water baptized. Now the water comes in. And when Jesus came out of the water after he was baptized, the dove the spirit came upon him and immediately Jesus went into the wilderness, but he went into ministry right after that. That is what being born again of water and spirit means because the Lord calls us to ministry to be fruitful and multiply just like Eve and Adam were told to do. So there's a physical representation in the male and female as one flesh procreating and giving birth to what Jesus is talking about in the spirit uh 2,000 years later. Now what happens here? Now there's something that goes on. So Jesus who he got baptized, he came he he came out of the baptism. He went into ministry. He was then crucified. But let's talk about that going back into Genesis because I want you to see part of this crucifixion here in Genesis because this is awesome. This is revelation that I had not thought of before that the Lord is revealing. So when Satan was cursed, see when Adam and Eve failed, they they lost the blessing because they disobeyed God and they were kicked out of the Garden of Eden. Three curses were spoken. one was to Eve. This is why I said I can do more parts. I'm not going to talk about the curse on Eve today. Uh then there's a curse against Satan and there was a curse against the earth. So he did three full curses. Let's look at the part of the curse that he did to Satan because this deals with the crucifixion. Genesis 3:15. And I will put enmity between thee and the woman and between thy seed and her seed. It shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heel. Now when Jesus when he was talking to Nicodemus and he was saying be born of water and spirit he was baptized. He came in and he went into ministry. But Jesus had a goal and that was to redeem all of us because he did not want to lose one of us. He needed to save us. When we are conceived today, we are conceived in sin. David clearly talks about that in the scriptures and in Psalms. So we are conceived in sin. So the Lord has to redeem us to get us out of that that sin. So what did Jesus do? He had to go to the cross. Now let's talk about being on the cross here for just a moment. Now they really don't know how Jesus was crucified per se. There are different uh ways to be crucified, different methods that they are familiar with. You can go study this on your own and check it out. I'm going to use the scripture here and just follow what the scripture is leading me on and we'll go from there. As for semantics of this, again, it's it's what you believe and you can ask the Lord to reveal this to you. So now let's picture Jesus on the cross here for a moment as he so in order to get Jesus on the cross. I don't believe that they put a ladder there and he climbs the ladder because anyone I mean Jesus might have done it. Anyone else I don't know about you but if they're going to try to kill me I'm going to fight to the end. Okay. And that is normal natural human nature right? uh Jesus is abnormal so he would go willingly but I don't think they had a cross there and that peop the men that were being crucified would be walking up there willingly so I think that they they bind their arms to the cross beam and so they are bound they can't really do much fighting but I mean fall and go limp and make the soldiers carry you and put you up there see that to me seems unreasonable so let's think about this in a reasonable matter let's say the horizontal beam is laid down and they have they lay you down and it's hard. You're not going to be able to get up after you're laid down because your arms are tied to this vertical beam. So, they have control over you at this point. So, they lay you down on that cross and then they pierce you with the nails. They put it into the hands or the wrists, whichever you want to believe in. They I guess they did some tests where if they did it in the hands, it would tear the body hanging. But remember, they probably had the ropes because they had to be bound to that vertical beam. So hands or wrist, that is up to you. The Bible talks about uh the wrist or excuse me, the hands here. And that's the word used. And uh maybe you can do a deeper study on that if you like. But here's what I do know is that they would raise the cross. And what the purpose of the cross was to do was to suffocate the person on the cross. You see, with your hands up here on the cross and your feet pierce to the the horizontal beam, when the nail pierces the feet or the foot, one or both, it pierces the heel. So Jesus heel is bruised on the cross. This takes the action of the cross back to the curse that God spoke to Satan at the time that Adam and Eve fell. So now you can see there's something that connects the two. We have to look at this in depth and see what the revelation is here. So if his heel is bruised, now understand what's happening here. There's a little piece of board or a platform that they put there for the feet and you can push up on that to lift you up because see they you're being pressed down you cannot breathe. You have to lift up yourself up to take a breath. When they pierce the foot the heel you are in so much pain when you lift you up. You have to let go. You take your breath you let go. So you relieve the pain in your heel so that you but now you can't breathe. So you have to keep going back and forth, back and forth. Now what happens is eventually you get tired and what happens is you're breathing less and less. Now your heart in the inner part of the ribs that is protected is now working double time, triple time, quadruple time. It is trying to get oxygen to the brain to the body. But this is the point of crucifixion. You are suffocating when you're up there. Well, as Jesus is dying, that blood is flowing. His heart is going. The the water separates from the blood. And so when the soldier pierces his body, he that blood and water flows. Now what? Let's look at the scripture to talk about how Jesus looked after he rose from the grave. I think this is very important because this tells you about the hands. This is why I lean towards the hands where the piercing took place. Now, it could have been the heel of the hands that would hold very well and it might very well be instead of the wrist. Who knows? But this is what the conversation that Thomas and Jesus had. Look at this. John 20 25. The other disciples therefore said unto him, talking to Thomas, "We have seen the Lord." But he said unto them, "Except I shall," this is Thomas talking, but he said unto them, "Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails and put my finger into the print of the nails and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe." Now in verse 27, Jesus is talking to Thomas. Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands, and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side. Look at the side, a rib, and be not faithless, but believing. You see the point of God taking from the rib and making woman out of the rib. He was pierced under the rib right there where the blood and water flowed to do what? For the spirit now, but he's in the flesh. So now you're talking about the fleshly church. The church is being born here on the cross by the water and the blood. And so now we have the church of God established today through what Jesus did in what he established when he made man in his image and completed because see Adam and Eve became one flesh and they birthed procreated life and children started coming out of them. Now Jesus came to the cross one flesh he birth. So himself and the church are together in the flesh as one flesh. Got to get this because see you understand look at the attack on the church today. We are still in the body. And what happens even though we're dead to uh uh sin, we're dead to these things, what happens is you're going to find people failing because we have an active adversary. The devil is constantly after us. He is constantly irritating us. So, we're going to lose self-control. These are the things we deal with. You see it in the pulpit. You see it in churches clashing. You see it in just doctrine. how there are so many different types of doctrine out there because we don't agree. But instead of disagre agreeing to disagree and walking in mercy and forgiveness and saying there could be truth to that or you know just being in love about the word of God and just showing the love and forgiveness, you see the active attack because we're still in the flesh. That's what Jesus did on the cross. Look at what the soldier did on John 19:34. But one of the soldiers with the spear pierced his side and forth with came there out blood and water. So there's a walking testimony here that the blood and water birthed the church. Now how is how is this to an individual being born again? Let's go to two people who were there to take the body of Jesus off the cross. Look at this. We're in John 19:38-40. And after this, Joseph of Arya, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the blood of Jesus. And Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore and took the body of Jesus. And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrr and allows, but about a 100 pound weight. Then they took the body of Jesus and wound it in linen clothes with the spices as the manner of the Jews is to bury. So now what I want you to see here, this is where being born again for the individual is so powerful. Now this revelation came through my dad. And so I I want to give him acknowledgement. This is something the Lord showed to him. He shared this with me the other night. He's the one who suggested I talk about women in the Bible. But it's interesting he shared that talked about women in the Bible and then I received several confirmations to teach this message. So I talked to him and obtain permission to share this revelation with you. So watch this. So in order So now they got to take the body off the cross. Do you think the soldiers are going to climb up on a ladder and try to carry him down? You know that that's more work. And in all fairness, they were smarter than we think they were. We always think we're the smartest generation. And uh these guys knew what they were doing. They're able to bring that cross down with the body on it. How? I don't know. But they were able to do so because that is a reasonable assumption. Okay. So, they were able to they might have a mechanism where the c the vertical beam sits into the hole, but they can lift it out and it just lays back down. They've got ropes and they know all these mechanisms. They're not they're not dumb. Okay? So, please understand that. How you want to take this and how you want to do it is up to you. But they're able to bring it down. Which means this allows Joseph of Arya and Nicodemus to prep take the body off the cross and prepare it. So now you have to understand there's nails in Jesus. They have to remove these nails. So they're going to pound it out from behind and get the nails off. Well, one of them, Joseph of Arythea and Nicodemus or both have to get uh they have to grab Jesus' body. Jesus is dead. That body is dead. It's now like a sack of potatoes. So, they're going to have to put their head under the arm. Imagine Nicodemus putting his head under Jesus' left arm where the blood and the water flowed and he picks him up. They lay him down on the linen cloth. Now that blood and that water is on Nick Demas. That is how you become born again. Now remember that was the flesh. What happened at the day of Pentecost? The Holy Spirit showed up. Now we're baptized with water and the spirit and we enter into the kingdom of God to minister to those around us, sharing the good news, the gospel, the redemption of Christ, laying hands on the sick. You know, I remember working at the school many, many years ago and one of the teachers was in the break room and she had her head down on the the table. She she had a headache, a really bad one. So, I went and laid hands on her, not even thinking about it. I just did it and prayed. So, I walk back into the office and about 15 minutes later, she shows up says, "I just want you to know the headache is gone. Your prayer worked." That is how we operate in the ministry of the kingdom of God. Every time you go to a gas station, every time you go to a grocery store, you're showing the spirit of God through you to others because you walk in the water and the spirit of the word of God. And the water is the Bible, the living word of God. That is the water, the spoken words of Jesus that cover us, go through us, penetrate us, allowing the spirit to manifest through us so that we confess words of blessings, revival, repentance, restoration, reconciliation. This is how the glory of the Lord manifests through us. We're born again and we can tell the world we are born again because see they look at us and they go what's different about you? Because see they face death the same way you face death. But you understand as a believer in Christ that death is just another door to go into the next life with Jesus. And so we celebrate life when a passing takes place. Whereas we might grieve a little bit but we become above and beyond the grief because we miss them. We're a bit on the selfish side. we're going to miss him. But someone who is not of God are going to grieve and hurt so bad that they it's a very difficult time for them to come out of it. This is where we have to show them with Christ how much more they can believe and be at peace and joy. Even though we all suffer the same way, there's a big difference. And you can see this from the day Eve was created. You can see how this is impacted the world to this day. This is Jesus. He set it up from the very beginning. Now, women, we are to protect the inner parts of our man. And men, you are to cover your woman. And we're to manifest and walk in one flesh with the water and the spirit of God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Let's close in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word and we bless your word. We pray that your word does not return void. And we anoint your word. And your word is so powerful. It is your presence. It goes through. It ministers to us. Lord, we love you. We thank you. We honor you. And we worship you. We praise you. Lord, do not let us forget this word. Do not let the devil take this word out of our hearts and minds, but let us apply it and live it the way you designed us to be living, to live and to walk in this earth. In the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. God bless you. I'll see you in the next message. Bye-bye. Previous Next

REPRIEVE To reveal how prayer, repentance, and choosing life over death bring about God’s intervention in nations and individuals, using Jonah’s calling and America’s recent election as parallels. The teaching emphasizes that the election outcome is not merely political but a spiritual reprieve granted by God, giving believers a renewed opportunity to intercede, walk in truth, and uphold righteousness in society. REPRIEVE Minister Lisa Kane November 17, 2024 Objective: To reveal how prayer, repentance, and choosing life over death bring about God’s intervention in nations and individuals, using Jonah’s calling and America’s recent election as parallels. The teaching emphasizes that the election outcome is not merely political but a spiritual reprieve granted by God, giving believers a renewed opportunity to intercede, walk in truth, and uphold righteousness in society. Synopsis: In this message, Lisa Kane draws from Jonah 1–3 and Deuteronomy 30 to show how God gives reprieves when His people pray and turn from sin. She compares Jonah’s reluctance to obey God’s command to preach in Nineveh with America’s divided political landscape, where lies, abortion, and ungodly agendas threatened the nation. Through prayer and intercession, God’s people sought His mercy, and the election of Donald Trump and JD Vance is presented as a spiritual reprieve—a pause in judgment and an opportunity for restoration. Lisa highlights Jonah’s struggle, the sailors’ recognition of a spiritual storm, and Nineveh’s repentance as examples of how prayer and obedience shift outcomes. Likewise, America’s choice to reject lies and embrace life has delayed judgment and opened the door for God’s Spirit to move in the nation. This reprieve, however, is temporary; believers are urged not to become complacent but to continue interceding, repenting, and choosing life so that God’s covering remains. The message closes with a call to recognize God’s sovereignty, remain vigilant in prayer, and live in alignment with His Word, knowing that choosing life and truth brings blessing, while rejecting lies and death invites destruction. Inspired Teaching - Written and/or Transcribed from Video Above: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kaine. I'm recording this on Sunday, November 17, 2024. Welcome. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word. Lord, we bless that your word does not return void. And we thank you, Father God, for bringing remembrance to our minds and our hearts of what your word is saying and doing in our hearts and minds and our lives. And we pray that we get revelation out of this teaching that we can see it applied practically in the circumstances of our current world. And I thank you for the revelation of this word, Father God. And I thank you that it does not leave us, that we don't forget it, but that we apply it and remember it as we live a life of prayer for you. In the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. Welcome. Welcome. I'm so glad that you can join us here today. We are uh very excited. We are the house of faith ministries and the we stand in faith with what we believe in. And so we do a lot of different kinds of teachings and today I'm calling this teaching reprieve. Let's go to our opening scripture and I'll explain what we're going to be talking about here shortly. I'm in Jonah chapter 1 and I will be in Jonah and Deuteronomy today uh if you have your Bible. So starting in verse 7 here. And they said everyone to his fellow, "Come and let us cast lots that we may know for whose cause this is evil is upon us." So they cast lots and the lot fell upon Jonah. So there's a there's a lot in this teaching, but I really want to show you what took place with the election and the results. And I'm going to show you how we've had reprieves in history and the result of that. So what I want to do is let's start here with what happened with the election. And so Trump won and he's going to be uh JD Vance and Trump are next president vice president for the next four years starting in January. So if you looked and watched the news outlets which was interesting and and comedic in some areas you will find that one side was saying it's done. It's a for sure thing and Trump's side you know yeah we got it in the bag. We were very hesitant to say that though because of what happened in 2020 where we went to bed thinking Trump had it in the bag and he didn't. We woke up and there was all these numbers and all these things that were counted in the middle of the night as they found suitcases under tables and what have you and being that it was such a close election that it ended up favoring Biden and Harris. Well, in this case, you know, you see the one side of the media talking about a landslide that was on the right side, then you have your left side where you're seeing uh these these people saying they had it in the bag. And I'm watching this media going, how can you say the same thing from two different viewpoints? Quite opposite. We have what's called a line of division in this nation. And why I want to teach us on teach on this is I want to show you what the power of prayer and what the power of unity being under the kingdom of God did for this election because I want you to see this was the hand of God moving here. He did it in such a way it was incredible. So even though those of us that were thinking on the right side that we were voting for Trump, we wanted Trump to win. We're very hesitant to say it was a landslide, but there were a few voices that did come out. Well, you know, it turned out it was a landslide. Not just a little landslide, but a landslide to the point of the popular vote just outweighed everybody. Anyways, so it was very interesting how this happened. So, in my own testimony, what I started doing uh probably about a year and a half ago is I started praying for the upcoming election. I prayed for our government. I forgave our government of its sins. I forgave the the people handling the elections of their sins. And as I did that, I also prayed and asked that God would bring in godly, righteous men and women who can come in and serve the people as if they're serving God. And and as you can see now, Trump has this he he really wants to make effective change in our government so that we can see righteousness stay within because we've seen evil come in. We've seen what evil does. Uh what is evil? Because some of you might be thinking, you think Trump is evil. Let's define it here for just a moment. Let's not define it based on what we think we already know. Let's define it on fact or action these actionable items that the current um government administration has done which is the Harris and Biden or Biden Harris administration versus what Trump and JD Vance are going to go do or what he's done even in 2016 with Mike Pence. So let's let's take a look at some facts here. What we know is that Camala Harris supported abortion and anyone if you go and talk to anybody who's worked in the field of abortion in the medical field, you will find that these people had no children. They could not have children because they're killing God's children. They could not be blessed with children until they repented and prayed and then God blessed them with children. But up until then, they could not have children. um they were desensitized to it until the Lord opened their eyes. I saw a testimony of a doctor. He says, "I didn't care what I was looking at or what I was doing." Then one day, all of a sudden, he cared. It was like the spirit moved in him and he got out of that real quick. By the way, to have a child, he had to adopt. So, you can you can connect all dots. It's a spiritual thing, which is what I'm going to be talking about here. I want you to see physical applications to the spiritual because that's what I'm wanting to teach on here. And this is why we have a reprieve right now um coming up for the next four years. Whereas Trump one, he loves Israel. If you took a look at the Biden Harris administration, they supported Israel, but they also supported Palestine. You cannot be one foot with God and one foot with the world. You will not stand. And God would rather spit you out because you're you're lukewarm to him. So he's going to vomit you out. that's scriptural in revelation. So that's how uh that's what Biden and Harris stood for. And then you come to Trump and you see a remarkable difference. Somebody who uh believes in people, somebody who supports Israel, somebody who has a heart of love for family. And if you look at his actions, he even said, you know, God brought me closer to him. You know, he had two assassination attempts on him, his life. and he got closer to God as a result. So, what we're seeing now is a door opening spiritually because we're closing off the hate, the the suffering, the choice of death to where you're going to see what the choice of life is like going forward. And I really want to define it. I want to show how it works. And I want to start with scripture because this isn't the first time this has happened. Now, I'm going to use Jonah today. There are other examples in scripture, but I'm going to walk with Jonah because I want you to see I when I began my prayer life, and I really, really took intercessory prayer very seriously. My walk changed with God. And there were things I did not want to pray for. And this is why I kind of want to stick with Jonah because Jonah did not want to pray. So let's look at that opening scripture. He said they're they're on a ship. So what's happening here with this opening scripture? So read the book of Jonah. It's only four chapters. I don't have enough time to bring it all here today, but I do want you to read it. He God told him to go to the city of Nineveh and preach to them. Call them out for their sin. Call them to repent. And Jonah's like, "Oh no, no, no." and he ran away and he got on a ship going to Tarsus and a hurricane hits. And so while on the ship, the people, the men there are like, "Wait a second. Let's find out who why the storm is." See, there's something here that they recognize. They recognize that this storm was unusual. You see, anytime you have to use the word unusual or weird, what is it that you're dealing with? It is a spiritual matter, but they didn't know who. Now, in their day, they didn't have a Holy Spirit or comforter to go talk to. So, they cast lots and the lots is what told them and led them in their direction. So, it landed to Jonah. So, they're asking Jonah, "Well, what's going on?" So, look at this. Um, so Jonah tells them, you know, this is his response. So then they said verse 8, then said they unto him, tell us we pray thee, for whose cause this evil is upon us, what is thine occupation? Whence comest thou? What is thy country? And of what people art thou? So see, they realize, hey man, this problem is because of you. What's going on? Because you should know what's going on. By the way, anytime you're in the ministry of deliverance or anything, almost 99.9% of the time, that person knows what's going on on the inside of their body. They know. They may not want to tell you. They may want to shield it and cover it, but they know. Amen. So, here verse 9, this is Jonah. He says unto them, "I am a Hebrew, and I fear the Lord, the God of heaven, which hath made the sea and the dry land." Uhoh. Wait a minute. Who are you again? Look at their response in verse 10. Then were the men exceedingly afraid and said unto him, "Why hast thou done this?" For the men knew, they recognized that he fled from the presence of the Lord because he had told him. So, you know, Jonah confesses, "I'm a prophet. I work for the Lord and I'm running from him." And they're like, cuz see the God of Israel has a reputation at this point. And they're like, "No, no, not that. Please, not that." Kind of cracks me up. Verse 11. Then said they unto him, "What shall we do unto thee? What the sea may be that the sea may be calm unto us? For the sea wrought and was temper tempestuous." I will read these scriptures, right? giving giving but they're asking him what can we do to you so that everything can be right again because they know they recognize that some things aren't right look at verse 12 and he said to them take me up and cast me forth into the sea so shall the sea be calm un for you unto you for I know that for my sake this great tempest or hurricane whirlwind is upon you so he's saying I know this for my sake I know it's because of me because I'm running from the Lord but throw throw me into the sea. See, I think he has in his mindset he's going to die because he's disobeying the Lord. And he chooses that he chooses to die instead of life to set people free. I want you to catch this. This is very interesting. Nevertheless, the men rode hard to bring it to the land, but they could not for the sea rot wrough rot and was tempestuous against them. So, they didn't want to throw a man overboard. They didn't they recognized that's death. you're going to die. They didn't want that to happen. And so Jonah is saying, "You just got to do it." They try harder to fight against God. Now, notice God could have just flipped them all over, saved them, did whatever, but he's letting them work out the problem, keeping the pressure on. The hurricane is still going. It's not killing them, but they know they cannot get out of it until they deal with Jonah. Let's get into this. Verse 14, wherefore they cried. They cost they are accosting God. They're call crying out to the Lord, right? He says unto the Lord and said, "We beseech thee, oh Lord, we beseech thee. Let us not perish for this man's life and lay not upon us innocent blood. For thou, oh Lord, hast done as it pleased thee." See, now they're putting it all back on God. Because But notice what happened, though. They went to God. So, with our election, what did Well, in my case, and I know I'm not the only one because God always has a remnant. In my case, I went to the Lord with the elections because I didn't want to see the same thing happen last time because, you know, I didn't know who would win. I I I don't think of Trump as a a pastor or a leader of the kind that is godly. He's got issues. But all of us have issues. And if we're willing to admit that, then we should be seeing Trump as just a man that can be there. But we see what he stands and represents. And then you see what Camala stood and represented. And you're just looking at the two going, "Wait, I do not support abortion at all. I am not going to sacrifice children unto the God Baal, which is what the Israelites did because that's that's wrong. God is a God about life and you're going to see that in the scriptures here. And so, you had a choice. Now, in this case, Jonah, he put himself in this situation. So, he set aside the man had a choice. I can keep fighting God, fighting God, fighting God. But they knew they would die. So they're making a choice. I'm going to go to God and I'm going to choose life. Lord, don't do what you need to do. Let this please you that we're coming to you. So verse 15, so they took up Jonah and cast him forth into the sea, and the sea ceased from her raging anger. The sea stopped. Soon as they threw Jonah overboard, boop, the sea got quiet. You want to talk about um a spiritual manifestation? That's exactly what that was. But they had gone to God first. They were like, I don't want to die for killing a man that well believes in you. And so they threw him overboard. And there goes Jonah. And he gets swallowed by a big fish. So look at what the men reacted though um in verse 16. Then the men feared. They revered the Lord exceedingly and offered a sacrifice unto the Lord and made vows. Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. Oh, how awful that had to have been. I don't I don't know. I think I would have been vomiting probably most of that time, if not all of that time, if I was in that situation. But here, you know, all it is is that God made a calling on to Jonah and said, "Go to Nineveh." And Jonah decided to reject that message and run away. Well, God said, "I don't know where you're going. You can't get that far from me." And he brought him back into the belly of a whale. Well, interesting enough though, Jonah does something while he's in there. He uh this is we're in chapter 2:es 1 and two now. Then Jonah prayed. Look at this. He judge he he judged the situation. He interceded. He made supplication unto the Lord his God out of the fish's belly and said, "I cried by reason of mine affliction, my tightness unto the Lord." And he heard me. Out of the belly of hell, cried I, and thou heardest my voice. You see, God is going to follow you wherever you go. So Jonah prays and let's jump down to verse 7 when he says, "When my soul fainted or it hid I hid myself within me, I remembered I mentioned the Lord and my prayer came in unto thee into thine holy temple. They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy." Lying vanities. Let's talk about this for just a bit m a moment here. That was the thing about Camala, too. Everything she said was lies. Every media outlet that promoted her promoted lies calling Trump a Hitler fascist. Uh they did not like the Madison Square Garden rally and yet it was filled with Jewish people and they called it a Nazi engagement. It was an outright boldfaced lie. and they kept saying it over and over again. And if you were watching Fox News, they like to be fair and balanced. I don't think they're the greatest either, but I did notice that they're the ones that were saying showing the lies and people were believing the lies. So, when you're sticking when you're looking at a situation, you have to evaluate like the men on the ship of Jonah, what is going on? and they went to the Lord. Then they did what they had to do to find out. They questioned the situation just like you would do in deliverance ministry. You question the person because they know what's going on. And the Holy Spirit's going to guide and direct you. You will see and know the lies because you went to God who is our truth. That's our He's faithful and true. Jesus is called faithful and true in Revelation. That's what's written on his pants as he's uh on his white horse. Faithful and true. So you had all of these lies. Who is the father of lies? Satan. So immediately when Camala was going for abortion, supporting abortion and portraying lies and kept repeating the lies over and over again. I recognized that that was evil. That's of the devil. So then what did I have to do then? I had to look at the other side because let's let's talk about this for just a moment. There is no gray area and there is no choosing of the evil side here. Trump did represent life, complete life. His wife Melania may not, but Trump is about life. He wants children to live. He is definitely not about abortion and he has nothing to do with that. On top of that, every time he spoke, there was factual evidence to support it. And the people on the other side denounced it, said it was a lie. I mean, it was just as clear as clear can be. You are seeing two sides of the story. So Jonah coming to Nineveh, he is supposed to represent the righteous of God and he's going to Nineveh. He wants to accuse them and he wants to bring them down. He doesn't want them saved because he's angry. He's hurt. He is a man of God, but he's angry. He's hurt. How many of you are angry or hurt because Trump won because you don't like him? Because he's not the kind of guy you would choose to live for. Well, I'm gonna tell you right now, I don't want to live in shoes for Camala, who is death and of the devil herself, because she lied. And the lies come from Satan. The body, the the Bible tells us that lies, who's the father of lies? Satan. I don't choose Satan, which means, yeah, I gotta choose this other guy, but I'm praying for him to be that godly, righteous man that's going to step in and do what he needs to do. So, I pull myself back and I go straight to the Lord. Where where do I go? And if you had asked me months ago, I wasn't sure if I was going to vote for Trump. I wasn't voting for Camala either way, but I did not know who I was going to vote for until the revelation started coming in, which is the Lord speaking to my heart and exposing the lies. As soon as I started seeing the lies, I was like, "Oh, now I get it, Lord." So, here we have a man who is barely born again, but he is born again. It is a man. Yes. We weren't voting for a pastor. We weren't voting for a messiah. We were voting for someone that wasn't following the father of lies. That's who Trump is. And here Jonah filled with anger. I'm man of God. So there are many of you who are filled with anger. You are raging. You are full of hate. What did God do though? He got Jonah into the belly of the whale and he isolated him until what did Jonah do then? Pray. And once he started praying, that is exactly when God started moving on Jonah's behalf. Let's go to his prayer. Let's start here. Um, uh, we're now verse 9 in chapter 2. But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving. In other words, he made his confession. I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the Lord. That word salvation is something saved. Deliverance, victory, prosperity, health. And the Lord spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah unto the dry land. See, it took Jonah having to come before the Lord and pray so that we can see this change and this deliverance. Now, why do I call this message a reprieve? Because remember, this is going to be the second time Trump is going into office. We saw what he did the first term, then we just saw these last four years. I don't care what anybody says. anybody playing paying $7 a tub for butter or $6 to $7 a gallon of gas. Uh California and New Yorkans are are dealing with that. And uh you you saw your cost increase and the Biden administration, Biden economics are telling you just suck it up. We need the money. But look at also here is another thing that got exposed by Kamla. She raised a billion dollars and she's still in debt because of all of the actors and actresses, the Hollywood elitist that she had promoting her that she had to pay for their vote or pay for the public support, I should say. Whether they voted for her or not in secret is a whole another ball game. But I'm telling you, she did not know how to manage money. and they were in office the last four years and they made it just worse for the American people. American people have been suffering under her. Well, guess what? We have a reprieve coming in that is going to change everything because we went to the Lord and prayed. So, we have a second chance. Look at this in Jonah 3 verse 1 through3. And the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the second time. That word second is double. You think that Trump did good his four years, which by the way he did. He didn't quite know what he was doing and there were a lot of people working against him on the inside. But notice what he's doing now differently. Look at the cabinet members he's picking. Oh, there is change coming. We have a reprieve from the evil wickedness that's been upon us these last four years. And we're gonna see a relief. Watch this. Arise, go. So now Jonah is being told a second time. Arise, go into Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee. Preach is to call out uh preaching proclamation. So Jonah arose and went into Nineveh according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of 3 days journey. So Nineveh is a huge city. Nineveh. It was a very evil, wicked city. Um I believe Jonah's father was killed by Nineveh. So this is one of the reasons why he was so bitter and hateful for this. Let's continue on. Says in verse 5, so the people in Nineveh believed. So see Jonah went and preached. Now there's a lot of things that could have happened here. Jonah was in the belly of the whale for three days and his skin he probably turned out and looked very white as a ghost. His testimony is probably going before him. But look at this. The people of Nineveh believed God, proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth from the greatest of them, even to the least of them. For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from from him and covered him with sackcloth and sat in ashes. They repented. Not what Jonah was hoping for, but they did repent. Verse nine, who can tell? This is what they're saying. Who can tell if God will turn and repent? be sorry, breathe strongly, sigh avenge, and turn away from his fierce anger that we perish. And God saw their works that they turned from their evil way. And God repented of the evil that he had said that he would do unto them, and he did it not. So God decided not to destroy them because they repented because America has voted in goodness and not death. We chose life. We we didn't choose death. Because we did that, we have a reprieve. God is not going to be coming after this nation. Yes, God would have if we keep voting, especially if we keep voting in abortion and we keep trying to get it in all the states now that it's at a a state level versus a national level. I'm going tell you right now, you need to repent. You need to choose life. We are seeing a reprieve. So now, the destruction is not coming. Does this change and effect end time prophecy? Well, from our perspective, since we're not God and we're we're guessing as to how he's going to do it, where is he going to do? When is it going to start? We're taking all these pot shots and teaching it. But God is saying, I can do anything I want. Especially if you repent, you keep repenting. God adjusts everything. That is God. Now, how do I know that to choose life and not death is a principle of the word of God that we should be following that America just voted in? Let's go to Deuteronomy 30 19 and 20. I call heaven and earth to record this day against you that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore, choose life that both thou and thy seed may live, that thou mayest love the Lord thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice. Then thou thou mayest cleave unto him, for he is thy life, and the length of thy days, that thou mayest dwell in the land which the Lord Lord swear unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob to give them. This is a principle that we have. And the majority of America finally said, "I'm voting for life." Now, they may not have done it for that particular reason, but they did come away from they recognize the father of lies. They recognize evil. They recognize the devil. So I come here not just to say that we have this reprieve for four years but to see how prayer intervened interceded here because I know I wasn't the only one praying for the elections. I wasn't the only one praying for our government. I've been praying for salvation. I've been atoning for them as a priestess going and just putting my feet in their shoes, lifting their hands with mine and saying, "Lord, forgive us of our sins." And now we get to see what a move of godly righteousness will do. And I'm gonna say this, I believe the covering that the evil covering that's been over us is now removed. We're going to see a whole lot more of the spirit of God moving in our individual lives and as a nation corporately. This is a time where we need to be praying. We need to be interceding. And don't stop just because we got this reprieve, but be prepared that it is a reprieve. It is temporary because we're going to have to get a new president in four years. We need to just remember and recognize what the father of lies is looking like and what he's about, the evil, and then looking at what our God of light is and who is full of life and gives us life and life abundantly. Amen. Let's close in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word and we bless your word and we thank you for the reprieve that you've given us, Father God. Lord, work in our hearts and our minds that we continue to pray that we continue to intercede for our nation and for the upcoming elections again in two to four years. We Lord, we just come before you and know that you are God. We know that you're in control and that you're going to show us your word and reveal the mysteries to those of us who choose to spend time with you interceding on behalf of those around us. Lord, I pray that you bring up more people to intercede and then show them who you are. We love you, praise you, worship you, and honor you for you are mighty and great. In the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. God bless you. I will see you in the next message. Bye-bye. Previous Next

UNDERSTANDING THE BOOK OF REVELATION PART 4 Equip listeners to understand Revelation 6–7 as the convergence point of God’s “physical” and “spiritual” timelines—clarifying the roles of the seals, the rapture, Israel’s sealing (144,000), and Jesus’ teaching in Matthew 24—so they can watch, persevere, and minister with confidence as end-time signs intensify. UNDERSTANDING THE BOOK OF REVELATION PART 4 Pastor Marcos Marrero May 24, 2009 Objective: Equip listeners to understand Revelation 6–7 as the convergence point of God’s “physical” and “spiritual” timelines—clarifying the roles of the seals, the rapture, Israel’s sealing (144,000), and Jesus’ teaching in Matthew 24—so they can watch, persevere, and minister with confidence as end-time signs intensify. Synopsis: Opening prayer & posture: A call to lay aside tradition and flesh, receive “rivers of living water,” and be strengthened for spiritual battle. Twofold structure of Revelation: Chapters 1–3 present the physical, linear church age (seven churches); chapters 4–6 unveil the spiritual dynamics behind that history (throne, Lamb, seals). Four horsemen as four forces: Antichrist deception, war, economic upheaval, and death operate to bring Israel (law) and the Church (grace) back into the same prophetic moment, culminating in Revelation 6. Fifth & sixth seals: The fifth seal highlights sacrificial witnesses (“under the altar”); the sixth seal pulls back the sky—heaven and earth meet, signaling imminent divine wrath and triggering end-time transitions. Transfer of anointing & the 144,000 (Rev 7:1–8): Before wrath falls, an angel “from the east” halts judgment; the Church is removed (Philadelphia kept from the hour of trial) and Israel is sealed (12,000 from each tribe) to carry the covenant witness. Great multitude (Rev 7:9–17): An innumerable company from every nation, tribe, people, and language appears before the throne—identified as those coming out of many tribulations who washed their robes in the Lamb’s blood (the raptured Church across the ages). Clocks and convergences: Physical clock: Six thousand years (six “days”) leading to the millennial Sabbath; 144 generations picture completion. Spiritual clock: 120 Jubilees (Noah motif) also converge near the end; both clocks meet at the sixth seal. Tribulation vs. wrath: Tribulation = persecution by men throughout the church age; wrath = God’s seven-year judgment. Confusing these leads to timing errors about the rapture. “No one knows the day or hour” (Mt 24): Read in context of the midpoint events (abomination of desolation). As in Noah’s day, God revealed the year and even a seven-day window; Zechariah 14 suggests a unique day when normal time is suspended to allow Israel’s flight on a Sabbath/winter. Midpoint details & flight: After the two witnesses’ 1,260 days, their death/resurrection coincides with Israel’s flight to refuge (Azal/“scapegoat” imagery from the Day of Atonement). God preserves a remnant for 1,290 days while others seal their testimony in martyrdom. Pastoral charge: Do not neglect Revelation or end-time preaching. Watch the signs (globalism, Israel, wars, upheavals), stay sober and ready, and lead others to Christ with boldness when the world is shaken—rejoicing at His appearing. Inspired Teaching - Written and/or Transcribed from Video Above: Indeed, Father in heaven, we ask that you grant us now ears to hear and a heart to understand, Father God. And I uh submit myself now, Father God, to the leading of the Holy Spirit. And I pray that I myself may have ears to hear, a heart to understand, and a mouth to speak the revelation that the Holy Spirit will want to bring to us tonight. Father uh in heaven in Jesus name. I agree with Fred as we bind the enemy right now. Father God as we declare the anointing of God in this place from above, beneath all around us, within us and through us, Father God, that the rivers of living waters that are attached to us through the Holy Spirit that is within us may be loose open today, Father God. Let all of the hindrances, all of the resistance, all of the failures, all of the garbage of the past, let it be washed away by the rivers of living waters, Father God. We don't want religion. We don't want no dead men's tradition. We don't want nothing, Father God, that has to do with the flesh of the world. We pant, Father God, for the rivers of living waters that flow from the heaven above, the door that Jesus has opened for us by writing our names in heaven. We come, Father God, and we thirst. And like Zechariah says that in the day of the latter rains, ask the Lord for rain. We ask for the rain now, Father God. In this day of the latter rain that we may be fed, nourished, and Father God, strengthened for the battle that lies ahead in Jesus name, we thank you, Lord. Amen. Amen. Praise God. Hallelujah. I'm ready to fight. I'm ready to fight. Praise God. Hallelujah. We um uh concluded uh last week and that um um the sixth seal and of course as we have been studying I said that the the first three chapters of the book of revelation chapter 1 2 and three gives us the physical timeline of the church age from the time that it was born to the time that it will be taken away. the Philadelphia church will be taken away, but the uh Leodysa church will have to go through the time of testing that's coming to test the entire world. And so that is a lineal and you can follow it from the letter to the the first church all the way to to the letters of the seven churches. And then I made the point that chapters four, five, and six are now the spiritual revelation of the same events that were given to us during the church age. And then I show by using this paper how the spiritual timelines work. And we see here that um in the whole seven years that God created uh I mean 7,000 years from Adam until the this present physical realm that we know of is done away with when the new Jerusalem comes down from heaven and God comes to dwell with us. uh that there are seven dispensation and we saw that innocent, conscience, human government and promise are the four forces that drive the whole of humanity. So when God enter into the covenant which was the promise that he gave to Abraham out of Abraham came two uh dispensations. One was the law or Israel came through Moses and it was given to Israel and grace the church which God made it through the known through the apostles and especially through Paul as he brought it to us. Now out of the Israel and the church when they two come together out of that time we're going to go into the kingdom age or entering into the rest seventh always means completion or rest. So we also notice that the first part of it deals with the whole 7-year period, the the condition of man, how God had to intervene by giving him a promise and then God introduced the law, his grace and from there to those who respond, we go to the kingdom age. Now the church age was given to us as a seven because God in in God's uh timing seven means a completion of something. God divides things into seven like the week. We have Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and then Sabbath the the seventh, that's when it rests, and then there's a new cycle. It begins again. So, we saw that we were given a message to seven churches. In chapters two and three, we have a physical revelation of the church age. So, since it's physical, it follows one, two, three, four, five, six, and seven because that's how we understand. But in the spiritual realm, following the the way that God does the seven, we can see that when we got to Revelation chapter 6, that God introduced four horses, a white horse, a red horse, a black horse, and a pale horse. And that symbolized the four spirits or the four winds or the four forces that are at work. And what are these forces working for in the spiritual realm? They are working to number one bring Israel which is represented by the law back as a nation and to bring the church which is the grace of God back into the same time to bring them together once again. See the church was born out of Israel. It were all all the apostles were uh Jews who were preaching the gospel. Jesus elected all 12 of them. And so then there was a separation to where the the Jews and were scattered. And so all of these forces have been working together to bring the church back. When John wrote the book of Revelation, Israel had already been out of the land for at least 30 or 40 years because it was in 60 AD that Titus invaded Jerusalem and destroyed the temple, destroyed everything. uh John wrote it probably 90 to 95 AD. So that was 35 years later when John is given this revelation. And so these four horsemen which is the antichrist wars one world economy and then one war that is going to involve oneth of the earth right around where Israel is at. Out of that is going to come two things. Number one, the souls that are under the altar. And we said that the uh under the altar is the blood and the ashes. When you brought a sacrifice, they had an altar. They had a a a a grill on the altar. They brought the sacrifice alive. They slaughter it. The blood ran down and then they burned it. If it was a burnt offering, the whole carcass of the animal was burned. So the ashes went down. So the term under the altar means something that was sacrificed to God completely and it was burned to ashes. Now we know that the Jews what they went through in in in in Europe was called a holocaust. Holocaust means burnt offering. Read the Spanish Bible and you see it. The word that they use for for burnt offering right here is holocaust. Holocaust mean to be burnt. And the reason why they call it the Holocaust is because Hitler burned most of the Jews. Their bodies had to be burned. How do you dispose of six million people? I mean that is that is hard to do. So they bury they had huge masses of of grave but it's too many. So they would burn them. So we see that out of these four horses the antichrist war this came out. And and so we see that because of at the end of World War II, Israel was born as a nation. So Israel was brought into the scene. And then we we saw that in Revelation chap uh I mean on Revelation chapter 6 when the uh fifth seal was open. Then when the sixth seal is open, which has not happened yet, we see that all of a sudden the skies roll back and now we have the spiritual and the physical in the same realm. There's no more wall or sky as where it says the sky receded as a scroll and everybody on the earth now we know that the earth is round and if we're here you go all the way to the other side of the earth there's people there when the sky rolls back it rolls back as much here as it does in China why because this is spiritual that's the spiritual realm so everybody wherever you happen to be on the earth you get to see that the lamb of god the wrath of god and the and the and the wrath of the lamb as it says when the sixth seal is open is ready to take place. And so we, this is what we see here. The wrath of the lamb happens on the sixth seal. And when we get to the uh uh first half of the wrath of God, which is uh uh 1,240, you see the same example. You see that one/ird of the earth, one-third of the sea, one-third of the rivers, one-third of the sun, moon, and stars. And then you see that the result of that is for the first five months tormenting demons are released. God allows all of the demons that are in hell to coexist with the humans here on the earth. And you say, "Well, why would God do that?" Because you tell people about hell, they don't believe it. And people died right now went up to hell and they want to come back and at least warn their families. That's what Jesus told us about Lazarus. Said, "Let me go warn my brothers and sisters." Well, see these people have refused to believe the gospel that has been preached to the whole world. So what God does is for five months he does not allow anybody to die. Nobody can die for five month. Imagine that. You can have somebody that gets beheaded. And I can imagine the the the head can actually still see and guide the body to pick crap and maybe hold it back up in there or something. You can't die. It says that it says and I'm I believe literal as much as I can on the word of God. It says that for five months nobody can die. And what happens is during those five months the demons, all of the demons of hell are released and torment everybody in the earth for five months. It says they tells you what they look like. They got long hair like woman, teeth like lion. And it says they have tails like scorpion. And when they sting you, it's like when a scorpion stings person. This is going to take place for five months. Then at the end of five months which is the uh uh uh uh the sixth trumpet or world two then four destroying angels are released and then everybody now that has repented and that says okay Lord I I know the hell is real I I believe I repent then their death will allow them to enter now into the rest of God. So these angels will come in and kill onethird of all of the humans are on the earth. This is how many people are going to believe. So we see the same principle whether you see it in the 7,000 year period of human history or whether you see it in the 2,000 year of the church you see the seven whether you see it on the 1260 days of the first week of re uh first half of the wrath of God you see it. So this is a spiritual principle which if we understand will help us to understand how things work. So here we have the first three chapters give us the literal or the physical revelation of the church age. We can go through history and we can see it. We can see that in the spirit realm. Chapter 4 showed us heaven before Jesus became flesh. Chapter 5 showed us the word of God coming flesh becoming a man then being worshiped and a and a claimed by everybody in heaven. Then he has now authority to open the seven seals. And as he unleashes the seven seals, we see that he's working on the church age. Now when the sixth seal was open, all of a sudden the sky was removed and now you have the spiritual world that we cannot see now and the physical world that we're in collide at one time. It all becomes one. So this is where we're going to start. If you have the book, we're going to start at page u um was it 29? I said 28. Page 28. This is uh the rapture of the church. And we're going to go to Revelation 7. And we're going to read verses 1-4. If you have your Bible, Revelation is the last book. And it says, beginning on verse one of Revelation chapter 7, after these things, I saw four angels. Now after these things meaning after the six seal was open and everybody saw that the throne of God and everybody saw the lamb and everybody was hiding in the bomb shelters and and told the rocks fall on us and hide us from the wrath of of God and of the lamb which is about to take place. So all of a sudden in Revelation 5:1 it says that four angels were standing at the four corners of the earth holding the four winds of the earth. Now what are the fourth wind? what I just show you in the paper, the the first seal, the second seal, the third seal, the fourth seal, the four horsemen of the apocalypse are like four winds or four influence or four forces that are at work to bring what this time when heaven and earth meet. Now, heaven and earth just met the skies were re uh receded. The judgment of God is about to happen. And then all of a sudden, an angel comes in from the east. He says uh uh after these things I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth holding the four winds of the earth that the wind should not blow on the earth on the sea or on any three. Then I saw another angel ascending from the east having the seal of the living God. And he cried out with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was granted to harm the earth and the sea, saying, "Do not harm the earth, the sea, or the trees until we have what? seal the servants of our God on their foreheads. And I heard the number of those who were sealed. 144,000 of all of the tribes of the children of Israel were sealed. Now, what is taking place over here is simply this. The church is about to be removed. Why? Because in in in in the message to the church of Philadelphia, uh uh Jesus told John to write, "Because you have kept my word and because you have not deny my name, I'm going to keep you from the hour that's coming to test everybody who lives on the earth." So we keep faith. We believe the word of God. We do not deny the the deity of Jesus Christ. That is our ticket out of here when it comes. So what happens is as the uh uh because we saw that when Peter is quoting Joel that uh the mountains were removed that there was uh billows of smoke and earthquake there was all kinds of things taking place and as this thing frightful things were taking place which are natural events that are taking place and everybody knows that the wrath of God is about to come this angel that comes from the east he said wait a minute we can't begin the judgment yet? Well, why? Well, because we were not appointed unto wrath. Paul says in the letter to the Thessalonians, you have not been appointed unto wrath. So, if the wrath of the land is coming, we have to be taken out. That's what the angel from the east does. Remember, Jesus says that in in his coming, he's going to be like lightning that flashes from the east to the west. He's talking about the rapture. But see, the church cannot be raptured because the church is the anointed entity of God here on the earth. We have been anointed to rule and to reign. That we are the only spiritual authority. Just like Israel was the only authority before that. That doesn't mean that you have to be Jew to be saved. We're not talking about salvation. We're talking about an entity that is in charge of as an ambassador to to bring God's gospel or or whatever the the law for the dispensation is to the world. And so before the church gets taken out, that anointing which is the seal of the living God, when did the seal of the living God come? In the day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit came and empowered the church, gave it the authority to carry out the work of God. Now that church is going to be removed, Israel has to be sealed. And so Israel responds by offering to God 12,000 young men who have never been with a woman. They're virgin. They're young. They're pure. 12,000 from each tribe. 144,000 are going to be offered to God and they're all will die by the time of the of the 1260 day and the two witnesses will die. So as they are offered to God, the anointing seal, God accepts their offering and their seal on their foreheads. And so here's what's happening. The sixth seal is open. The sky is removed. The world is screaming and crying because the earth is shaking. There's smoke. There's there's all kinds of things going on. The angel that come from the east, that's the rapture. The angel of the rapture says, "Hold everything. We have to transfer the authority from the church before we take it." Because when the church is gone, it's gone. And and the Leo, they say church don't have no authority. They deny Jesus is not it. Revelation 3:20, Jesus said, "Behold, I stand on the door and knock. If you open the door, I'll come in." Obviously, they never open the door. If they would open the door, they go up in the rapture. So, they're left. So, then the authorities transferred to the Jews. Now, who does this transferring? And of course, these are the two witnesses. The two witnesses while this guy is receding and it's back, not not just the angels coming in. The two witnesses come in. They will know what Jewish from what tribe and they will know exactly them to seal. But now here I'm going to give you a key and the key is that there are two clocks. There is a physical clock and there is a spiritual clock and the physical clock is governed by the times and the seasons. For example, uh uh uh uh the the earth takes 365 days to go around the sun. So that's a year. The earth takes 24 hours to go around on itself and within a circle. And that's called a day. And that is the what governs us. Our clock is governed by the position of the earth in relation to the sun. But when God introduced his spiritual clock, his spiritual clock was never dependent upon any physical thing. God just created everything on six days. And he says, "Okay, the seventh day is holy. We're going to rest on it. The seventh day can happen in winter. The seventh day can happen in summer. The seventh day can happen in spring. The seventh day represents God's spiritual clock." So now listen to this. Moses in Psalm 90 and and second Peter tells us that a day is like a year unto the Lord. And now I mean it's like a thousand years. A day is like a thousand years unto the Lord. Of course we have six dispensation. The seventh is when we enter into the day of rest. Revelation six different time says that Christ will reign on the earth for a thousand years. So, we do know that the last day is a Sabbath and it lasts a thousand years. So, that means that the first six days lasted 6,000 years. Okay? That's why when you add the the the calendar from the Bible, you come up that we're about the year 6,000 because we're about to enter into the day of rest. Now, look at this. The day symbolizes a thousand years. Now, if a day symbolizes a thousand years, what does the hour symbolize? Because we know that an a day has 24 hours. Well, guess what? The hour represents a generation. So, you see, out of every thousand years, God counts 24 generations. So, six working days is 144 hours. So when you come to the day of rest, the last hour, the 144th has to be the last one because that then you enter into the day of rest. So that tells us that this event is happening right at the end of 6,000 years because God except from Israel who's going to be now sealed 144,000. What that means is the 100th and 144th generation is the generation that will end time and then we'll go into the transition period of where we go a thousand years and it's physical. Moses says a day is like a thousand years and and and then by implication I know that an hour represents a generation. So there's 104. Adam was the first generation. Jesus says about the generation that will witness the signs on the sky when all of these things begin to happen. Jesus says this generation shall not pass away until all of these words are fulfilled. So the first generation was Adam and Eve. The last generation is the one that gets taken up. But there's more. There's the other time. The other time is the Sabbath time. God comes in through the law, through Moses, says, "Now, I want you to do this." He says, "When you go into the land, I want you to work the land for six years." In other words, you're going to plow the ground. You're going to put the seeds. You're going to take the weeds out. You're going to harvest. You're going to do this for six years. But the seventh year is holy. The land needs to rest. Nobody works on the seventh year. God told him, "Well, that's a problem. If you don't get paid for a whole year, you were in trouble, right?" So God says, "In the sixth year, I will bless you and your crops will produce double and then you put it in your barn." Man, I wish I had that deal today. I like to have every seventh year off without having to work. I have all my needs met, right? So this was idea. Then he says, "You do that is called a sbatical. You do that for a a cycle of seven. In other words, you do it the the first seven, the fourth thing, the 21, and then when you get to the 49th year, this is seven cycles of seven, seven weeks of seven. Then the 50th year is the year of jubilee. Now remember Jesus came, he said, I came to proclaim the year of jubilee, the year, the acceptable day of the Lord. That mean that's the year that you enter into rest. Now if you were an Israelite and you were in the 30th year of the cycle and you fell into death, in other words, you borrow money and you couldn't pay it, you will become a slave, but you have to be released on the 50th year because the 50th meant all of the debts were cancelled, ended. No more death. So if you had a land because all of the Jews inherited a a plot of land, you had a land. It always belongs to you and to your children to your children. After this, you could sell it, but whoever bought it had to figure out, okay, this is the 30th year. We got 20 years until Jubilee. Uh and they'll pay you for those 20 years because on the 50th year, they had to give you the land back. It's a jubilee. You enter into the rest. All of the maps are cancelled. See that is God sabatical clock. Now God comes in during the days of of Noah and he says I am going to bring judgment upon the earth and everything is going to be destroyed and I'm going to do it in 120 years. Now why would God select 120 years? Well, see the 120 years is spiritual and it applies to the church because there were 120 people on the upper room when the Holy Spirit fell upon them. So the 144 represents Israel physical the physical clock the spiritual clock is uh 120. Why 120? Well, God said I'm going to destroy the earth in 120 years. And 120 years exactly the judgment came. the you know in the 120th year the the the gates of the heaven were open the springs were open the water came in everybody was killed now Jesus comes in and says like it was in the days of Noah is going to be at the end time what does it mean well 120 time 50 which is a jubilee leads us exactly to 6,000 so you see what's happening over here like I've been teaching There's a spiritual clock. There's a physical clock. And boom, they're converging 144 generations later from Adam and 120 Jubilees from the day that Adam was created into to go into the garden and go into the rest are all converging at the end of chapter 6. And so here in chapter 7, now we're going to see the result. And the result is first 144,000 are sealed for for Israel. And then uh uh Revelation 7 9 and 10 says after these things I look and behold a great multitude which no one could number of all of the nations, the tribes, peoples and tongues that were standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were clothed with white robe with palm branches in their hands. And they were crying out with a lou voice saying, "Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne and unto the lamb." This is the rapture. Notice that it is people from all nations. Now, notice that this it's not just all nations today because since this is the resurrection, this is all nations that ever existed. out of all tribes, wherever people were, out of all people and all tongues. That means that God is in the business of saving people and he saves people not just through Israel. Because if Israel uh uh failed to proclaim the gospel of God, then nobody got saved on the 1500 years that Israel was a nation. If the church has failed to proclaim the gospel like so so many places have pro uh failed to proclaim, then there will be people from tribes that were lost. But you see, Paul tells us in Romans chapter 1 that God has put within the creation and within the heart of man eternity to where men are convicted by the very creation itself. So out of every tribe, out of every tongue, out of every revelation, even when there was no gospel and and there's plenty of of of uh uh things has been said about that, Buddhist people that were praying to whatever and and had Jesus appear to them. All kinds of things that happened through the ages. And so what happens is this is when all of those people who die believing the word of God, the gospel, whether it was preached through a preacher, whether it was preached through the law or whether it was preached by nature or whether it's preached by your heart. Paul says this and as a matter of fact, let me go there. I want to make sure that I get this point. It's Romans chapter 1, the end of Romans chapter 1. Because I want to make sure that that we understand this is still Jesus, the one who does it is in Romans chapter 1 and uh and verses um let's begin with 17. He says, "For in it," talking about the gospel, he says, "I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it's the power of God unto salvation." Verse 16 and 17 says, "For in this gospel that is a righteousness, the righteousness of God is revealed that goes from faith to faith. And as it is written, the just shall live by faith. For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth and unrighteousness." And look at verse 19. Because what may be known of God is manifest in them. For God has shown it to them. Meaning that the gospel has been preached to every creature. Look at the next one. For since the creation of the world, see remember from every nation, from every tribe, from every tongue, since the creation of the world, God's invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and godhead, so that they are without excuse. And then he goes on to say that all of this is done through the sacrifice that Jesus gave. So that means that if you live somewhere way out there 3,000 years ago and never heard the gospel of Jesus Christ, yet the gospel was preached to you by the things that were great. God speaks to you. God can speak to you through a song. God can speak to you. I remember when I was young, the first time I got drunk, I walk home, our house was on top of the water and I couldn't go into the house because man, I was moving and I sit there on the edge of on the dock on the water and my head was just going around and then all of a sudden this bright meteorite, whatever it was, just went by. It was 2 3:00 in the morning. Our town hardly had any lights. So, was you could see every star in the Milky Way and the thing just flushed so big in the sky. And I I was just felt so little seeing that. And of course, I was drunk. So this voice spoke to me and it was Satan. He says, "This is what your life is going to be like. Nothing. Nobody's going to see it. Everybody's going to miss whatever it is. Why don't you just end it? It is not worth it." I was saying to myself, "I don't know who you're talking to. I listen to you. I ain't that drunk. I know that for sure." I said, "I I went in and got in the bed and puke all over the place, but man, I wasn't going to jump in the water. you know, I don't care what you say. So, there is a a spiritual battle that takes place even before you're saved. You know, even in the middle of sin, how many people have told you that in the middle of their worst sin, God comes in and speaks to them. So, this is what I say. So, we see then in in Revelation 7 that out of every uh uh tongue all of the nations uh uh are there. Now, look at Revelation 11. 7:11 and uh let me go there real quick and to show you the the same principle. Revelation chapter 7 11 it says and all of the angels stood around the throne and the elders and the four living creatures they all fell to their faces before the throne of God worshiping God saying amen. Amen means this is the end of of of this this concludes the church age. Amen. blessing and glory and wisdom, thanksgiving and honor and power and might. Sevenfold worship of God is given. Then in verse 13, one of the elders comes and asked John, who are this who are clothed with his white robes, and where did they come from? And he said, and I said to him, sir, you know, so he said to me, these are the one who come out of the great tribulation and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the lamb. See this is the church age because they have made their they have washed it in the blood of the lamb. Now the word there and this is where so many people get confused. The word uh that came out of great tribulation for some reason uh uh uh Bible teachers of the end time. They're telling you that the great tribulation is seven years. And if you were here in lessons past, I explained to you the difference between tribulation and wrath. Tribulation is when God, I mean when people persecute you for your faith in God. The church, if you look at the letter to the churches, they all undergo great tribulation. And one of them says, "You will have tribulation from 10 days." That was the it is historical fact. 10 different emperors persecuted the church that was a span of 200 and some years. So the church have gone through tribulation and has always been going through tribulation. Jesus said in this world you will have tribulation but be of good cheer because I have overcome the world. Wrath is when God judges the earth for persecuting those who trust in his word. See that's the difference. The wrath of God is seven years. The tribulation endures a whole church age. And if you want to look it up, look at the word where it says these are they that came out of great tribulation. The word great is mega. The the word that we use is a Greek word to mean big, but it's plural meaning megas, many. These are they that came out of many tribulation, not one tribulation. And so this will help you to understand that the these are the church because they want to tell you that this happened in the middle of the tribulation. And to explain that they tell you that the 144,000 are evangelists that go out and evangelize the whole world. Nowhere in the Bible is that you see you have to make that up to explain why the rapture takes place in chapter 7 when you're thinking that chapter 4 is when he said come up here. That's that's when the rapture happened. That's if you don't understand the full twofold meaning of it. If you know that the first three chapters are physical and you know that the the that the next three chapters four, five and six are spiritual. They converge and when they converge that's when the rapture happens and then you don't have no problem explain it. That's why he says the these are they that came out of many mega tribulation. Now this possesses a problem. Go with me to Matthew 24 and let's look at verse 36 and 37. In Matthew 24:36 and 37, Jesus says, "But of that day and hour, no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but my father only." Let me stop there. We're going to deal with with that scripture, some more of that scripture there. But did you know that that is what has made me cele where in the word of God have you ever read God telling you don't read my word you don't need it have you ever read that anywhere is nowhere the opposite right God's always want us to study study to show yourself approved here men have taken the scriptures and they say no one knows the day nor the hour so because of that this Sunday when preachers preach all over the United States probably less than one half of 1% of the messages will be on the book of revelation. Now what is the most important event in the Bible? The Bible is about Jesus and the two most important events is his first coming and his second coming. That's it. The first and the second coming of Jesus. That's the most important of all of the events. The first event already took place 2,000 years ago. The next big event is when he comes back. How many preachers are going to be preaching on the book of Revelation telling you to get ready because Jesus is about to come this Sunday? I bet not too many. And you know why? Oh, no one knows the day nor the hour. So, let's not bother. No one knows. No one knows the day nor the hour. So, let's not bother. So because of this, so many Christians and their teachers and their pastor ignore the book of Revelation and the greatest event that we need to get ready for, which is when Jesus comes back. They don't want to bother with it. But you see what I've been teaching is that the sky is going to recede. It's going to open. There's going to be fire and smoke and all kinds of things before the great day of the Lord. That's what the church was birthed in. Remember Peter quoted Joel Previous Next

GOD IS GOOD To reaffirm the biblical truth that God alone is the source of all goodness, mercy, and forgiveness, while the devil is the source of all evil, deception, and destruction. This teaching seeks to strengthen believers’ discernment so they can distinguish between God’s loving discipline and the enemy’s attacks, stand firm in God’s promises, and respond in faith and trust when trials or end-time events unfold. GOD IS GOOD Pastor Marcos Marrero Objective: To reaffirm the biblical truth that God alone is the source of all goodness, mercy, and forgiveness, while the devil is the source of all evil, deception, and destruction. This teaching seeks to strengthen believers’ discernment so they can distinguish between God’s loving discipline and the enemy’s attacks, stand firm in God’s promises, and respond in faith and trust when trials or end-time events unfold. Synopsis: The lesson emphasizes the foundational truth that God is good and the devil is bad. Using Psalm 86:5 and John 10:10 as central texts, it explains that one of Satan’s greatest deceptions is convincing people to blame God for evil. Jesus clarified that abundant life flows only from God, while destruction originates from the enemy. The teaching highlights that simplicity is key: God, our Father, is the originator of all good, while Satan is the father of lies and evil. By discerning the “resources” from which works originate, believers can distinguish between the fruit of God and the works of the enemy. Trusting God’s goodness is essential, especially as end-time events approach, when fear and chaos will test hearts. Believers are urged to unite their hearts in faith, allowing the Spirit to perfect God’s love in them, which casts out fear. Salvation unites soul and spirit so that even when the soul feels fear, it can rest in the Spirit’s assurance of God’s promises. The teaching underscores that God’s will for His people is peace, hope, and a future, and that He is abundant in mercy toward all who call on Him. Ultimately, the response to God’s return—whether fear or joyful expectation—depends on whether we truly believe in His goodness. The call is to trust Him wholeheartedly, reject the deception of the world’s system, and anchor our lives in the unshakable truth that God is good, all the time. Inspired Teaching: Psalm 86:5 “For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, and abundant in mercy to all those who call upon You.” The greatest accomplishment perpetrated against humanity by the devil, is getting people to blame God for the evil that the devil does. John 10:10 “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.” Jesus makes it abundantly clear: God is good and the devil is bad. It sounds like a very simple preposition, but there is not a single one of us who have not thought at least once, that God was punishing us when something bad happened to us. We are living in a day when the line between good and evil is so blurry, that we need to return to the basics in order to understand what is going on all around us. Matthew 6:9 “In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in heaven…” Simplicity is the key that keeps us from getting confused: I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. The word father means originator. God is our Father in heaven from whom all good things originate. John 8:44 “You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.” Jesus uses the word resources to identify that which flows out of, and originates from the word father. That is why it's so critical that we understand that only God is good, and that He is the source of all good. And that the devil is the father of all lies, and the source of all evil. Mark 10:18 “So Jesus said to him, ‘Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is God.’” The Jews of Jesus’ day knew the basic principle that only God is good, so when a man came and knelt before Jesus and called Him a good teacher, Jesus responded by saying to him, Are you calling Me God? Of course, the man witnesses the good works that Jesus was doing, so he called Him good. But Jesus wanted to make sure that His disciples understood this principle: that only God is the source of all good. We know that Jesus is the Son of God, so He is good also. It is only when we are able to identify who the sender is from the resources he is bringing, that we will be able to discern the difference between the work of God and the work of the devil. Matthew 7:15-16 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits…” So far everything sounds very simple but is critical that we get the basics of this spiritual principal, that is, if we want to be able to discern the truth and keep ourselves from being trapped by the end-time deception that we are warned about—is coming— in the Word of God. Here is what I am talking about! Psalm 86:7 “In the day of my trouble I will call upon You, for You will answer me.” How can we know that God will deliver us when we call on Him, if deep within our heart we blame Him for our troubles? Although there is a personal application here, our focus in this lesson is about the soon return of Jesus to take us home. In our opening text we are told: Abundant in mercy to all those who call upon You. This is a reference to those who will call upon the Lord during the shaking of the heavens and the earth, as our Lord returns. Acts 2:20-21 “The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord. And it shall come to pass that whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.” I often ask this question of my readers, In the midst of the sun turning into darkness and the moon turning red as blood, would you see Jesus coming to save you or to judge you? The answer depends on whether we see God as good and the only good, or whether we have doubts about His love and commitment toward us. In a time of crises our initial response is a reactive one. And it will reflect that which we firmly believe deep within our hearts. Do we run from or towards? If deep within our hearts we believe that Jesus is coming to rescue us, no matter how great the chaos all around us is, the more diligence we will employ in calling to Him, for we know that He is: Abundant in mercy to all those who call upon Him. But if we are not sure, our instincts will betray us, since His love and His goodness has not been perfected in us yet. 1 John 4:18 “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.” How do we get to the place where His perfect love casts out all my fears? For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive. In order to personally know that God is good, we need to know deep within our hearts that He has completely forgiven us all of our sins. No sin, no judgment, no torment, right? Jesus came to give us life, and abundant life! The devil does not come, except, to steal, to kill, and to destroy. If no evil resource can come from our Father who is in heaven, and if no goodness can come from the father of lies and murder, is there a way to know the difference between when I am being disciplined by God and when I am being attacked by the enemy? Psalm 86:11 “Teach me Your way, O Lord; I will walk in Your truth; unite (singleness of heart) my heart to fear Your name.” Salvation gives us access to our Father in Heaven, who gives us His Holy Spirit, in order for us to learn how to walk in His ways. His ways are simple, God is good and He wants to do good to us. Jeremiah 29:11-12 “For I know the thoughts that I think towards you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.” Calling upon God and knowing that He will hear us, is based on our belief of this fact, that God wants to do us good and not harm. 1 John 5:14 “Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.” What is His will for us? Thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. All that is left is for us to unite our hearts to fear His name. How do we do that? We make a conscious choice to receive the things of God’s kingdom, and to reject the things of this world system. 2 Corinthians 4:4 “Whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.” Since we all got saved out of this world system, we were all once blinded by the god of this age and mired in its corruption. Both our souls and our spirits make up the heart that needs to be united. Our spirit man was reborn the day that we got saved, and bears witness from the Spirit of God, that we have been delivered from fear of the torment of God’s final judgment. Our souls are still in the process of salvation, and will continue on that process until we die or the Lord returns to take us home. 1 Peter 1:9 “Receiving the end (goal) of your faith—the salvation (unification of soul and spirit) of your souls.” The idea is that our souls—which are still connected to our human senses—are so interwoven with our spirit-man, that when it perceives fear from the world around it, instead of fret, they turn to the rest in which our spirit-man resides, which is in the Holy Spirit who continuously reminds it of God’s faithfulness to His promises. Psalm 86:2 “Preserve my life, for I am holy; You are my God; save Your servant who trusts in You!” Notice how the spirit-man intercedes for the soul to which is firmly united: Preserve my life (soul), for I am (the spirit-man is) holy. What is it that connects the two? Save Your servant who trusts in You! Trust in the Word of God, in the goodness of God, and in the good promises of God to us. If the Lord returns this year, and according to Scripture before He appears, the sun will be turned into darkness and the moon into blood, how will you react to the coming cataclysm? How you react will depend on whether you have a united or divided heart when He returns. As long as it is called today, you can still do something about it. I hope this lesson helps you make the right choice. Hebrews 4:7 “Again He designates a certain day, saying in David, ‘Today,’ after such a long time, as it has been said: ‘Today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts.’” Previous Next